Slab City – a so-called „Snowbird Community”/trailer park in the Sonora Desert in the Imperial County.
Snowbirds are diverse people. Some are from higher latitudes and colder climates in the northern parts of the USA and Canada.
Reaching the end of California at the Salvation Mountain
Salvation Mountain: reached the end of California
Past the Salton Sea, in the Colorado Desert, by Slab City, you can find the so-called “Salvation Mountain”. To be exact, north of Calipatria, north-east of Niland, in the Imperial County.
No ghosts to be found in Calico Ghost Town, CA
Calico Ghost Town – a ghost town without ghosts
Calico Ghost Town is located in the Mojave Desert in the San Bernadino County in southern California. Off Interstate 15 you can already read the characters “CALICO”.
A schoolboy explored some silver whereupon the town in the course of the silver mining was founded. There were more than 500 mines and the population was at approximately 1.200 people.
Visiting abandoned Bombay Beach, CA
Bombay Beach – the abandoned town
Bombay Beach is located on the east coast of the Salton Sea, in the Sonoran Desert in the Imperial County, California, and marks the southern end of the San Andreas Fault. With its location of 223ft (68m) below sea level, Bombay Beach is the lowest city of the United States.
Bombay Beach used to be a really famous resort in the 1950’s and 60’s. The visitors swam in the sea, did some waterskiing, went golfing during the day and to the party in the Yacht Club at night.