Slab City is a unique off-the-grid community with no public utilities, attracting winter snowbirds and offbeat individuals. Law technically applies in Slab City, but government involvement is ...

Ten-year resident Rodney “Spyder” Wild at his California Ponderosa Airbnb in Slab City. “The people that come visit me — Iceland, Russia, Japan — stopped coming,” said Wild, 55.

Slab City is a 600-acre chunk of California desert on an abandoned WWII artillery training range, home to long time residents, newcomers and transients. There is no running water, no sewers, and ...

Reporting from Slab City, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of “bumming around and hopping freight trains,” the 25-year-old from Kansas City arrived ...

For some, Slab City has long been a way of life. Others are refugees from the recession. “A lot of us just have nowhere else to go,” said Tracy Moss, 73, who came to Slab City with her husband ...

Slab City’s largest and most recognizable art installation, Salvation Mountain, has been closed during the pandemic. The installation, near Niland, Calif., was created over 30 years by artist ...

Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs it sits on -- all that's left from a World War II training camp. Now it is home base for more and more people who can't afford to live anywhere else.