Slab City - niland, California
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Slab City may be the most wonderful, weird and disturbing campsite in the country. Go with an open mind or don’t go at all.
Annual Events:
* The Range – live music and entertainment every Saturday night
* The Stage Door – live music most Friday nights.
* Solar Mike’s Potluck on the last Wednesday in January
* Talent Show on the last Saturday in January
Sights to see:
In the slabs
* Church of Broken Toys
* Salvation Mountain
* Painted Tanks
* East Jesus
* Pet Cemetery
* Free Library
* Squirrel’s Skate and BMX Park
* Gopher Flats (golf course)
* Hot Spring
* Makeshift Community Shower
Outside of the slabs
* Mud Pots
* Salton Sea
* Red Hill
Social Clubs
* Karma Kitchen (feedings on Tuesdays and Fridays @ 4pm)
* Loners on Wheels (AKA LoWs)
* The Oasis Club
* Traveling Pals
* The Freedom Cafe
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| Amenities: | Activities: - Fishing - ATV Trails |
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Posted by Anonymous
on Apr 20, 2009
From Niland, take Main Street east. After 3 miles or so, you will run into Slab City. Impossible to miss. Check out Salvation Mountain, East Jesus and the Range / Stage door on Friday and Saturday nights.
The Slab City Library is a great place to swap out your book collection for ones you haven’t read. Ask around, you’ll be suprised at just how much of a community the place is.
There is also a shower. Near the first guard shack as you enter Slab City. The shower is a run off from a hot spring near by. It is basically an outdoor shower with a bit of privacy. You shower in a culvert below the ground level after climbing down a ladder. It is rather interesting and very cool.
Very interesting place, lots of nice people, watch out for the hippies, hide your beer. Hot springs are great in the morning, right after morning coffee at the oasis club.
Stayed here for close to a year. some nice people great fun and good music on Saturday night at the range with builder bill. Listen to a resident named Chance great musician. quiet and hot in off season and lively and entertaining in season. Great camping experience
The dumpstation at the rest area south of Calipatria is closed as of 12/30/2011. Your next option is to pay $10 at the Niland Civic Center, home of the Tomato Festival. City drinking water is available at no extra charge.