Camp Young Airstrip

Historical marker location:

62450 Chiriaco Road, Chiriaco Summit, California

( Marker is on Chiriaco Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2001

Camp Young - Headquarters. Desert Training Center California-Arizona Maneuver Area.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.