有些人渴望远离都市，哪怕只是暂时远离。加州索诺兰沙漠（Sonoran Desert）里的一个名叫“板城”(Slab City)的地方就成了这些人自由之行的目的地。

Slab City is a unique off-the-grid community with no public utilities, attracting winter snowbirds and offbeat individuals.

A man who spent two weeks living in Slab City - an off-grid community with no laws, which is populated by homeless and jobless squatters, and former felons - has lifted a lid on what really goes ...

They also inspired what would become the community’s name: Slab City. Snowbirds still come to the Imperial County spot for the winter months, though the population is shrinking. The rest ...

There are no signs leading to Slab City. From Los Angeles you head east deep into the desert, and then south, past the Salton Sea. For years, a diverse group of people has been drawn to the ...

SLAB CITY, Calif. – Outside Rodney Spyder Wild’s desert camp, there’s a new addition to fit the times: a small sign that reminds visitors to wear a mask. Above the sign, a plastic skeleton ...

Throughout Slab City there are scrap heaps and burned-out vehicles Credit: WB Productions Noisy neighbours 'burned out' DNA is one of an estimated 150 permanent residents in Slab City, yet that ...

Salvation Mountain and Slab City — two legendary California monuments that have attracted a sprawling off-grid community and drawn countless rebels, artists and outcasts to the desert — may ...

A filmmaker has documented his two-week stay in Slab City, a lawless, off-grid community populated by homeless and unemployed squatters and ex-convicts, and uncovered what truly happens within the ...