Yesterday I drove the about 75 miles from Thousand Palms, California to arrive at Slab City. It’s located about three miles out into the desert from the small city of Niland, CA on the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea which is about 35 miles long.
The Slab City area in Southeastern California as see by Google Earth.
Known as Camp Dunlap during World War II, RVers found it in the 1960’s. I’ve been stopping here for the last 16 years.
Here’s a couple of links to help you get a better understanding of this most unusual place!
http://www.militarymuseum.org/CpDunlap.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City
Here’s everything you could want to know about the Salton Sea…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
The afternoon temperature was 65 degrees under partly sunny skies!
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