Tinselman has an entry about Salvation Mountain, a desert hill near the Salton Sea in California that’s being continuously decorated with brilliantly colored things by a man named Leonard Knight.
Rising up out of the desert near Niland California is Leonard Knight’s whimsical vision of paradise: waterfalls, flowers, streets of gold, fields of rich green grass and towering pines. It virtually blankets a small hill and still, he continues to build.
Reader comment: Bart says: “We’ve gone out to Salvation Mountain several times, each time showing more friends and family what Leonard has done. That entire southeast region of the Salton Sea has many interesting stops including Slab City (snowbirds and squatters community on a deserted military base), Bombay Beach (half underwater) and the numerous bird preserves (one dedicated by Sonny Bono). Quite an interesting place. I recently snapped a bunch of photos while out there.