Battle of the Wilderness • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Brock Road-Plank Road Intersection is Stop 8. This is the last stop on the Wilderness Battlefield Auto Tour. There is a small parking area on the south side of Orange Plank Road just west of the busy four way stop with Brock Road. From the parking area a trail loops 600 yards through 465 acres of land that was purchased and preserved in 2002.
Stop 8 on the Civil War Battle of the Wilderness Auto Tour
Several monuments and markers are at the stop or along the trail:
Monuments
12th New Jersey
Vermont Brigade
Major General Alexander Hays*
Wayside markers
Echoes Homeward
Hell Itself
No Turning Back and On to Richmond
The Climax
Valuable Crossroads
Other Markers
Horror on the Orange Plank Road orientation marker
Battle of the Wilderness Compass Rose
*General Hays’ monument is 1/4 mile north on Brock Road
Sign for the Vermont monument trail at Stop 8 on the Wilderness Battlefield Auto Tour
Tour Stop 8 is on the south side of Orange Plank Road just west of the Plank Road intersection. (38°18’02.8″N 77°42’34.6″W)
Where to next?
This is the last stop on the Battle of the Wilderness Auto Tour. To visit the nearby Spotsylvania Court House battlefield, continue south on Brock Road about eight miles.