Leonard Knight was born in 1931 on a family farm near Burlington, Vermont, the fourth of six children. His daily chores—watering vegetables, cultivating the land, feeding the pigs—made for a childhood ...

Reporting from Slab City, Calif. — People call it a mountain, but it’s just 150 feet across and five stories tall, jutting skyward like a candy-colored, Jesus-inspired hallucination brought to life on ...

On a recent Sunday, a small group gathered at the base of Salvation Mountain in the Imperial Valley desert, two hours east of San Diego. A shade cloth stretched between four poles provided some ...

Folk artist Leonard Knight, creator of Salvation Mountain, died on Monday afternoon in San Diego. He was 82. It took Knight about three decades to paint and personalize the famed art installation in ...

The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting ...

As I reported earlier this week, folk/outsider artist Leonard Knight was admitted to a local long-term care facility, raising questions about the future of his desert-based artwork, Salvation Mountain ...

There's something haunting about Salvation Mountain. The technicolor art installation in Niland on the outskirts of the Salton Sea attracts folk art enthusiasts and free spirits alike. But a closer ...

Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain, a famous roadside attraction near the Salton Sea featured in the movie "Into the Wild," died in his sleep Monday afternoon. Knight, who also made a ...

National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey has traveled the world to do his work: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Georgia, the Himalayas. But one of his most interesting projects focuses on a place less than ...

After what seemed like an eternity in the music business, singer Kesha is back with new material. Her new song “Praying” was just released and many on social media are calling the recording her ...

Southern California’s Imperial County Board of Supervisors named “Salvation Mountain” a Historically Significant Property and Historic Resource today, January 9, in a unanimous five to zero vote. The ...