California Desert Adventure ☀️
Salvation Mountain
June 30, 2021
Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain has a simple statement: God is Love. Apparently this message is best conveyed with bright colorful paint upon the area’s pale stone, local adobe clay and other such happenstance canvases. Entering the Dr. Suessian land you can feel the urgency of Knight’s saved soul even if you don’t quite understand.
The roadside stop gained some fame when featured in the film Into the Wild, increasing the donations of pain and, in turn, the
Since it is the off-season in this area, as well as Slab City (my next post), parts of the display were closed for meandering. Here are some caves that were able to be viewed.
It was a stop long on my to-go list as a lover of roadside attractions and outsider art. I was happy to see it while visiting the area weirdness… this part of California has an energy unmatched.