Visiting the Mud Pots & Geothermal Mud Volcanoes Near Calipatria, California

Slab City is a handy base for visiting local attractions.  We visited the Mud Pots and Geothermal Volcanoes near Calipatria.






The hot mud bubbles.

I think boiling mud is about
as hot as boiling water.

It burps up.

We hear blub, blub, blub...

Steps away are geothermal

mud volcanoes.

The pressure of gases pushing
up through the mud creates
a mud volcano.

The mud volcanoes near

Calipatria have grown to

three, four feet tall.

This area of California has 

numerous geothermal plants.

Water from deep within the 

earth is used to generate electricity.