Slab City, California
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"Slab City" redirects here. For an area surrounding a sawmill, see Slab city. For the unincorporated community in Wisconsin, see Slab City, Wisconsin.
Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community[1] consisting largely of snowbirds[2] in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained after the World War II Marine Corps Camp Dunlap training camp was torn down.[3] Slab City is known for attracting people who want to live outside mainstream society.[4]
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Location | Sonoran Desert, California (4 miles northeast of Niland) |
Coordinates | 33°15′27″N 115°27′45″W |
Operated by | Chasterus Foundation |
Established | 1942 |
Slogan | “The last free place” |
Website | slab-city.com (archived) |
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