That’s because Slab City has more than its share of people who think this patch of scrubland is impervious to disease. “We don’t wear masks. We share the same marijuana pipe.

Kelsey Pittman, 33, has been found alive in Colorado nine months after she was reported missing, authorities said.

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 has always appealed to the hardiest of wanderers. Retirees and snowbirds have migrated to this public land in Imperial County for decades in search of a rent-free and funky lifestyle.

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 ...

But while Slab City is free, it's certainly not a free-for-all. Reports of lawlessness (Vice titled its 2012 Slab City documentary Living Without Laws) appear to be exaggerated.

Slab City, an isolated community in California's Sonoran Desert, has long been a landing place for those who want to live off the grid, operate outside the confines of modern society, flee cold ...

Get our newsletter! "Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place" is a new book that explores a one-square-mile patch of desert in Imperial County, California, that once served as a military base.