SLAB CITY, Calif. ... Though hangouts such as the Range and Wild’s California Ponderosa RV compound are planning to reopen, many people are preparing to leave before temperatures reach 100.

Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs it sits on -- all that's left from a World War II training camp. ... He could no longer afford to stay at an RV park and heard about Slab City.

A former military base that was closed after World War II, Slab City is a place on the fringe both geographically and philosophically and attracts a variety of people, including jobless and ...

Slab City is a former Marine training base, about 600 acres in the Mojave Desert. ... Moving on, Dan and I next visited our friend Sue at the Howling Coyote RV Campground in tiny Why, Ariz. The ...

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, Mo., arrived at this ...

A man who spent two weeks living in Slab City - an off-grid community with no laws, which is populated by homeless and jobless squatters, and former felons - has lifted a lid on what really goes ...

Everyone lives rent-free in Slab City. There is no landlord or any rules, but neither are there any utilities or houses. Yet 3,000 to 4,000 people spend the winter here-most in splendid comfort.

Slab City is an empty town in the middle of the Colorado desert in southeast California made up of RV owners, squatters, poverty-stricken individuals and retirees who want to get away from the ...

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea ...

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 ...