All Tomorrow’s Parties, 2021-22

Giant Rock
Home of George Van Tassel / Brotherhood of the Cosmic Christ / Ministry of Universal Wisdom
Site of Interplanetary Spacecraft Conversations, 1954-77
Mojave Desert

Holy City
Perfect Christian Divine Way
Father William E. Riker "California is a White Man's Home", 1919-1950s
Santa Cruz Mountains

Institute of Mentalphysics
Designed by Ding Le Mei (A.K.A Edwin J. Dingle) and Lloyd Wright using sacred geometry
An experimental method of self-realization
1941-
Yucca Valley

The Kaweah Colony
The Karl Marx Tree, The General Sherman Tree
1886-1892
Sequoia National Park

Llano del Rio
A socialist community founded by Job Herriman with 900 members
1914-1918
Antelope Valley

Murphy Ranch
Wionna and Norman Stephens, and a mysterious "Herr Schmidt"
"a self-sufficient farm based on National Socialist ideals"
1933-
Rustic Canyon

Nevada City
Nevada Cooperative Colony
April 28, 1916 - May 1, 1919
Lahontan Valley

Name Unknown
Remains of a Hippie Commune
1972-74
Anza Borrego Desert

Metropolis
The Pacific Reclamation Company: "An Agricultural paradise"
Hotel, railway station, fire hydrants, sidewalks, parks and schools: "A genteel life on the fertile plains"
1909-1935
Burnt Creek

Oh-My-God Hot Springs
A Squatter Camp of Hippies, Nudists, and Hippie Nudists
1920s- June 6, 1993
Anza Borrego Desert

Rajneeshpurum
Rajneesh Neo-Sannyas International Commune, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
From Poona, India, to Central Oregon / 93 Rolls Royces
1981-85
The Big Muddy

Slab City
Camp Dunlap, 1942-56
Slab City: "The last free place in America"
1956-present
Colorado Desert

The Hog Farm
Wavy Gravy, AKA Hugh Romney
"perhaps the most serious, most successful, and grooviest hippie commune in America" - Peter Schjeldahl
1966-1968
Sunland - Tujunga

Spahn Movie Ranch
Charles Manson and the Family
1968-69
Santa Susana Pass

The Integretron
An electrostatic generator to increase lifespans. George Van Tassel
(Construction plans received telepathically from extraterrestrials.)
1955-78
Homestead Valley

Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society
Katherine Tingly / The Raja-Yoga School
1897 - 1942
Point Loma

Zzyzx Mineral Springs Resort
Zzyzx "The Last Word in Health Care": Dr. Curtis H. Springer
1944-74
Soda Lake