"The road out there is not as you would imagine. It is worse."
"Visiting this small painted hill in the middle of nowhere is a spiritual journey"
Bring water, it gets scorching
Leonard Knight spent decades building a technicolor mountain from adobe, straw, and thousands of gallons of paint in the desert wasteland east of the Salton Sea. The result is part roadside wonder, part spiritual beacon: a riot of murals and scriptures rising impossibly from nothing, with plenty of open space for your dog to explore while you take it all in.
"The road out there is not as you would imagine. It is worse."
"Visiting this small painted hill in the middle of nowhere is a spiritual journey"
Bring water, it gets scorching
Leonard Knight spent decades building a technicolor mountain from adobe, straw, and thousands of gallons of paint in the desert wasteland east of the Salton Sea. The result is part roadside wonder, part spiritual beacon: a riot of murals and scriptures rising impossibly from nothing, with plenty of open space for your dog to explore while you take it all in.
What are you into?
- Colorful desert art
- Folk art monument
- Offbeat roadside stop
- Instagram photo spot
- Salvation Mountain
- Niland