Niland, California - Salvation Mountain
Field Report by the Roadsideamerica.com Team
- Address:
- East Beal Road, Niland, CA [Show Map]
- Directions:
- North of I-8, south of I-10, 5 miles east of Hwy. 111 at Niland.
- Admission:
- Free, donation suggested.
- Hours:
- Daylight hours.
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Niland, California - Salvation MountainReligious folk art painted by Leonard Knight onto dirt ridge he calls Salvation Mountain. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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As we drove along we noticed several heavily loaded military vehicles tailing us. Near the mountain, we came to a ten ft. chain link fence topped with razor wire. There was a narrow opening for the road that led straight to the mountain. We passed through slowly, uncomfortably aware of the odd looks of 10 or 20 people mulling around, some dressed in Arab-ish costumes. On the right was a 20-ft. guard tower, on the left the shambled remains of a vaguely middle-eastern town, complete with arabic grafitti and hand carts. We pulled over to let the caravan of military vehicles go speeding by as we tried to figue out if we should go on. The looks from the people standing around nearby (who didn't look like Hollywood or military types) definitely said "go away." So we did.
I'm not sure if this was a temporary installment, but it would certainly have made an attraction in itself. [Todd Schoenbaum, 04/01/2005]
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