Salvation mountain5/22/2023 Salvation Mountain will be on your right hand side. Cruise past the Salton Sea and turn left onto Main St in Niland. To get to Salvation Mountain drive about 90 minutes from Palm Springs via Highway 111 South. In fact The Folk Art Society of America declared it “a folk art site worthy of preservation and protection” in the year 2000. The mountain is 150 feet wide by 50 feet tall, and is really more of a large painted folk art clay mound. If youhappen visit during one of the work parties you can leave your mark by helping to paint and build a piece of the mountain. Visitors often bring paint to donate to the project and a group of volunteers work to protect and maintain the site. In 2012, a public charity, Salvation Mountain, Inc., was established to support the project. The mountain requires constant maintenance due to the harsh surrounding desert environment. All the supplies are donated and the builders are volunteers. It encompasses numerous murals and areas painted with Christian sayings and Bible verses, though its philosophy was built around the Sinner’s Prayer. There is other religious scripture such as the Lord’s Prayer, John 3:16 and also painting of flowers, trees, waterfalls and other collages and murals featuring recycled objects. The mountain is made of adobe, straw, and thousands of gallons of lead-free paint. The mountain is in Niland, California about 74 miles south east of Palm Springs at the entrance to Slab City, which is where a community of snow birds and squatters live off grid in the former WWII era Camp Dunlap Naval Reservation. Right next to Salvation Mountain is an area called East Jesus which is an experimental art compound you can also explore. Salvation Mountain was created by Leonard Knight to profess his love of God.
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