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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Food & Drink Nation & World Slab City, a trailer park utopia, thrives in remote desert Originally published December 24, 2011 at 12:56 pm Updated December 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm ...