California is known as the land of milk and honey, but it has has a place that’s not so sweet. From a distance, the Salton Sea looks like any beautiful body of water with amazing white beaches. However, once you come close, the Salton Sea beach tells a different story of a miserable and depressing area.

Salton Sea Beach is a census-designated place in Imperial County, California. It is located 2.5 miles southeast of Desert Shores. The population was 518 in 2023, up from 422 a few years ago. It is part of the El Centro Metropolitan Area.

The Salton Sea has an extremely high salt content and is surrounded by salt flats which can easily be broken with hand. During the 1950s, Salton Sea Beach was a popular beach-going destination. It was well known as “California’s French Riviera”. The Salton Sea was the ultimate vacation destination for the rich and famous. Beachgoers flocked to the sunny inland shores for rest, relaxation and recreation.

The area attracted half a million tourists annually, rivaling Yosemite National Park. Wealthy developers purchased every inch of the properties surrounding this miracle in the desert to build homes, hotels and businesses to create a vacationland. In short time small towns were erected surrounding the area with schools, public services and lots of entrepreneurial businesses.

The saying, “all good things must come to an end” is the story of the Salton Sea.

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