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 ...

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 ...

Known for its unconventional way of life, Slab City, California has grown into an off the grid community of artists, oddballs and squatters. But even the “last free place in America,” as ...

Musician Carlos Gonzalez, who has lived in Slab City for five years, wears his guitar outside his trailer. Despite the celebratory defiance of pandemic safety protocols from some residents, plenty ...