Roadside Americana · California
Salvation Mountain
A painted adobe hillside of love & color
TypeFolk Art & Sculpture
StateCalifornia
WhenFall–spring (brutal desert heat in summer)
How to visitFree (donations welcome); remote desert — bring water & fuel
Leonard Knight spent decades hand-building a glowing adobe-and-paint hillside near the Salton Sea, emblazoned “God Is Love” in a riot of color. A genuine folk-art pilgrimage on the edge of off-grid Slab City.
The photo
The painted mountain face under blue sky.
Pair it with
- Slab City
- Salton Sea
- Bombay Beach
- East Jesus art
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