Camp Clipper

Camp Clipper opened in the spring of 1942 and ran from Essex Road east to about here, one of twelve camps in the Desert Training Center. The whole of it was a simulated theatre of operations laid across California, Arizona and Nevada, chosen because the ground resembled North Africa closely enough to harden men for it. The others were Young, Coxcomb, Iron Mountain, Ibis, Granite, Pilot Knob, Laguna, Horn, Ryder, Bouse and Rice. Goffs kept a camp of its own, off that list.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Goffs — 12 mi
  A near-ghost on the pre-1931 Route 66 alignment, keeper of a 1914 desert schoolhouse and a WWII Army camp.
• Kelso Depot — 28 mi
  A grand 1920s Mission Revival rail depot standing alone in the deep Mojave, now the preserve's visitor center.

More markers nearby

• Camp Ibis — 25 mi