Coxcomb Chapel Road

Coxcomb Chapel Road travels across the 3-mile-wide WWII Coxcomb Camp, revealing the many artifacts left behind. For a short two-year period starting in 1942, Coxcomb Camp became a massive tent city housing 15,000 soldiers training for the North African Campaign.  The camp was laid out in grids. Streets and boulevards were bulldozed, and rows of tents were set up on each side of assembly areas. When completed, the camp had 39 shower buildings, 165 latrines, 284 wooden tent frames, an observation/flag tower, a 40,000-gallon water tank, and the chapel. Both sides of the road pass extensive rock alignments placed by soldiers to provide borders for these roads, walkways, living and training areas, and plants. Coxcomb Chapel Road passes one of the most complete artifacts, the Coxcomb Chapel. Near its center, the road crosses Coxcomb Monument Road, which at its start has a monument to the soldiers who trained here, then fought, and especially those who gave their lives.

This hard-packed road is easily handled by a 2-wheel drive vehicle. The north end of the road has since weathered away.

There are no appropriate dispersed camping locations found near the road.