Salvation Mountain

Only in the desert....would you find a sand dune remade into an adobe mountain and painted in bold colors...all to bring people to the True Faith.  Salvation Mountain.  Located near Niland (which is really near nothing), Salvation Mountain began as a labor love by a guy named Leonard Knight in the 1980s.   He arrived, looked around, and decided to begin his ministry.

First he put concrete on the dunes and then applied paint.  That broke down and he perfected the means of making an adobe covering on the dunes and then applied the paint.  It sort of lasts...sort of.  It grew and grew--topsy turvy.  And all supplies were donated so the colors are eclectic and mismatched.

Salvation Mountain is located next to Slab City.  And Slab City...well, when the military left the area everything went with them, except the slabs from old buildings.  And folks long on heat tolerance and short on money, have moved in and call it home.  Slab City.  Everything you need except trash, water, and sewage services.

Leonard is no longer able to maintain the Mountain...so he wants corporate sponsors.  Interested??

Salvation Mountain

Ummmm

A work in progress!

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