Salvation Mountain

Just off Imperial County’s Highway 111 and the Salton Sea you’ll find “The Last Free Place in America.” It’s home to artist, vagabonds, and squatters. Here, rules, law, and land ownership exist only in the minds of people who’ve been here the longest. This place is called Slab City.

Today, this self-governed desert community is broken up in two parts: Slab City and East Jesus. The divide is a whole separate story, but before all that, back in 1940 Slab City was Camp Dunlap, a Marine barracks. After World War II, Camp Dunlap was decommissioned and wanderers from all over started camping on the abandoned concrete slabs.

Art and experimental constructions can be found all over Slab City, but one of the most notable features is Salvation Mountain. The colorful football-field-sized hillside is a tribute to love and God. Longtime resident “Builder Bill,” as he is known, helped build the mountain with the late Leonard Knight.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/the-man-the-mountain-the-tourist-attraction/103-fc0bf35a-952a-4906-abcc-5a798ee847c4



Hideous!

Looks like Peter Max may have had some influence on Leonard Knight.