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

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. — The dusty compound is cluttered with rusted school buses and wooden shacks. Cacti stud the grounds and Christmas lights drape dried tree stumps. When the wind blows over 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...