Bombay Beach

Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.

Faded Salton Sea resort town on the northeast shore that boomed mid-century and later became a surreal open-air art and ruinscape of half-buried trailers, pier remnants, and installations. Public roads reach the shoreline and community; the site is a defining stop on any Salton Sea desert circuit for 20th-century resort history and contemporary desert art culture.