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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