Visiting The Glass Outhouse in Twentynine Palms, California

[@d-v-cez9152]

Huell Howser would have been proud of this video...Oh my gosh! It's a glass outhouse! This is amazing! RIP, oh wonderful resident of Twenty Nine Palms ❤️🇺🇸

[@janiscommentz7732]

Thanks for creating the video of our local attraction! Those of us who have shown art, attended openings, attended weddings, (used the glass facility) and know, Laurel, the curator, would love you to know how special this place is. For over a decade, the waiting list to exhibit has exceeded four years. Recent expansion of galleries has shortened that wait time. Word of mouth was the only publicity for most of the time. An interview with Laurel Would be great and I hope that will happen next time you visit. Thanks for posting. This is a true Joshua Tree area attraction

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I was bummed I didn't have time to stop a month or so ago on my most recent drive through. Such a cool place.

[@susiejo6947]

My brother has a homestead in Wonder Valley. We go to the glass outhouse all the time. They have new art pieces there monthly & sometimes the artists are there. I love the lady who runs/owns it & her cute little dog!!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

It's great. We plan on stopping by every time we are in the area.

[@susiejo6947]

@@SidetrackAdventures you should visit that area the 1st 3 weeks of October I think when all the homesteads from WV to Yucca Valley open their art studios to visitors. There’s over 100 houses to stop at!! It’s pretty fantastic!!

[@IEchuckie]

100 houses! Now I have to pee

[@AbandonedMines11]

A really terrific video! Never heard of this place. Those glass outhouses must get awfully hot in the summertime.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

They were hot in the winter, I can't imagine them in the summer!

[@rickr530]

When you're in the desert the people are scarce and the views are breathtaking. I've had the glass outhouse experience minus the glass -- just you and the toilet seat, the open air and the view. I wish everyone could experience not just passing through but being in the desert.

[@1sttigertiger426]

Steve, Your videos make me want to travel again!

[@3henry214]

Clever engineering of the outhouses.. I'd have no reservation about using them. They're constructed using one-way mirror glass, you can see out, but you can't see in... they look like mirrors from the outside. It's the same stuff used in large store's and Casino's for security to keep an eye on customers. People can't tell whether or not someone is actually there behind the glass. It's the stuff you see in Police TV shows, where someone is in the interrogation room being grilled, and it's being watched by other unseen cops from the opposite side... those types of scenes were the bread and butter of the TV show NCIS. A lot of work has been put into that place... especially the layout of the bottles, impressive.

[@kenbearsley8322]

This video only just came up. That is a real fascinating place. Hope the place is still going. We certainly don't get that place on our places to visit while in America ad's here in New Zealand. Great video Steve

[@JH_75]

"Quite the view when you're using the loo." I subscribe to quite a few interesting channels and view a lot of similar subject matter, but I must reiterate (as I've commented before) that you just do a great job with this channel. Your presentation is perfect. Such a nice, relaxed style, and interesting places. Your appreciation for history and respect for these places and the environment is apparent. You've got a great voice for narration as well. It would be interesting to hear your take on some of the Superstition Mountain lore if you ever get out that way. Please keep it up, it looks like you're having fun doing it. Thank you.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[@joepeach997]

"Your appreciation for history and respect for these places". I agree 100%. And it's only going to get better, imagine that!

[@SuperTemak]

I have lived in Twentynine Palms for seven years and I didn't know about this place! I'll have to check it out soon.

[@paulk2085]

Thank you for taking me on trips around the west and the rest of the US

[@boomtownrat5106]

The things one miss when having a destination in mind and not enjoying the journey. About a month ago while on Hwy 95 in Parker, AZ was looking to get back to the LA/OC area. Saw a sign that said Los Angeles and took that road thinking it was going to lead to interstate 10 and instead found myself on Highway 62. When you said that people think Highway 50 through Nevada is the loneliest highway but really it’s Highway 62 through the California desert, you weren’t kidding. I was a bit freaked out with the nothingness of all of it. Did go pass the Patton training facility, didn’t stop, and went right past the glass outhouse, and guess what, didn’t stop. Now I regret it after seeing your videos.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Yeah, we were driving it on a Saturday and probably went 20-30 minutes without passing another car at one point. Its crazy, especially considering how crowded Joshua Tree National Park usually is.

[@hshalom9113]

@@SidetrackAdventures you're in Wonder Valley. 29 Palms is still west. LOL

[@Okapi.LuckyFeather]

I would love to see it at sunset with the light showing through the bottles on that ridge.

[@erickim2025]

Totally unique concept in art display , looks clean to boot deserves to be visited ❤

[@reneejones7807]

Can't wait to go next time I'm driving back to Vegas from So Cal. I shall strive to be brave enough to use the glass potty. And the art in the gallery looks really nice!

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Keep'em coming. Love your channel.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thanks! Will do!

[@elizabethvandeventer5487]

Found your channel on my feed and I’m glad it popped up! I’ve been binge watching! Thanks for the cool California things of interest.

[@Corgis175]

If you gotta go, there you are and love all the art scattered about.

[@RetroRobbin59]

Awesome place! Youre videos always make me wish for more. Well done!

[@tthappyrock368]

What cool and quirky art works! I would totally love to visit the Glass Outhouse!

[@lauravanniekerk4719]

I love this episode.....so funny and yet brilliant

[@davidmclaughlin2796]

I love it! Thanks Steve

[@deandupont5503]

This is friggin' awesome. 35 years ago, the area around Twentynine Palms was just meth labs and 'survivalist' types. It's great seeing something creative happening there.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I'm pretty sure that stuff is still there too lol. There's quite a few cool art attractions in the area now too though.

[@bigroller]

Hi y'all now it's massive marijuana farms here , people from out of state are coming here and thrashing our desert. Check out operation hammer strike.

[@ripdrop1305]

🤣

[@jonmacdonald5345]

@@bigroller leave those folks alone

[@dougmartin7129]

@@bigroller. That’s all gone now . All raided and removed. End of an era .

[@michaelsimonds2632]

Nice video, Mr. Adventures! Thanks!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnvaldez6997]

Now that is creative,👍😗😚🥰, the old escusado, of glass, ye outside no less, for convince sake...I love the outdoor life, like the pictures in the "Macho magazine, Field & Stream...when occupied you can view who is coming up the driveway, to see you, That is a real advantage...thank for introducing this alternative healthy way of life...💭😙

[@ddolde]

Been there several times and showed my work there

[@valeriegoode9762]

This place is so neat.

[@DovieRuthAuthor]

That's hilarious! I needed a good laugh today.

[@heyoldman2003]

very cool again 👍🏼 we used to go to a cabin on the west coast north of Aberdeen. Whoever built it designed the bathroom so you can sit on the John and see the Pacific Ocean. Very cool! Thank you Steve your shows are great.

[@JohnBrown-s8d]

You should check out the iron art in Joshua Tree, on Sunfair. You can't miss it. I live less than a mile from it.

[@paulloya3902]

Dude…,. U are amazing :) we need to get u a new Padres hat though lol

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Trying to hold out to see what's up with the season! Maybe time to change it up.

[@ME-qr2kq]

Definitely unique. Have to say being ex Military I have done my buisness in stranger places. If I'm ever in the area I'll have to give it "whirl".

[@jerrysullivan8424]

Thank you for the road trip.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

This was a really cool stop! I didn't realize there were still so many roadside attractions in off beat places! It would be too freaky sitting on the commode looking out at the world! Might be cool once I got used to it, but I don't think that's for me!

[@cat3crazy]

I'm too far away to visit. I've been wanting to get a small RV and do some traveling. Your videos are just encouraging me to do it.

[@josealeman209]

Bro your channel is amazing to watch 😎 thanks for showing us historical places. I have to plan a trip to a couple of places on that you have been to

[@gracefilms2610]

Very unique

[@swankles3877]

What an interesting find....the artwork looked pretty cool, obviously a lot of work went into it. Thanks for posting another San Bernardino County gem🙂

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Your welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@lizmccready1560]

Thanks for showing us this exhibit - i live in Ontario Canada and really have no desire to visit the States anymore but I would if i'd known that this art exhibition was here - it's awesome - also, i would try the outhouse if i really had to pee badly LOL

[@scottandlindae3803]

Great place, thanks for sharing.

[@lookingin2309]

I'm put a glass outhouse on my roof here in Atlanta put a bright light inside and call it the Lighthouse :) I promise to only use it at night hehe.

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

Its the place to go!

[@aventuraseneldesiertodecal8284]

Well we need to go there!!

[@conniewojahn6445]

Nice chapel! Lovely wood, great workmanship. I can see why someone wanted to get hitched there. Two outhouses - his and hers - you figure out which is which?

[@lgd4247]

Another interesting little nugget. Way to "go!" Suggestion...Camp K.O.A. Do they still exist?

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I think so. I see the signs sometimes.

[@Raydawg]

Are those actual functioning outhouses? It might be worth a trip from Phoenix Az. just to use one. I'll have to scope the area out for geocaches and see if a trip is in order. Thanks for the video

[@discostew115]

Wow what whacky place

[@Joeyw-2203]

On a related note, never use the bathroom on a Greyhound bus, for exactly this reason. They have a big one way glass wall. The only trouble is turning on the light makes the one way glass shine the other way. You can't see out, but everyone outside can see you and believe me, they are watching.

[@josels1292]

I don’t have to go!! Saying this when holding your butt and moving desperately 😂

[@derek20la]

7:47 uh huh sure... you didn't have to "go". That's what they all say lol. I would've chugged a bottle of water just for the privilege of getting to use the outhouse with a view.

[@richardweaver9682]

We discover this place on the way home from Havasu last September. Love the skeletons exersiing and the one "dying of thirst" under a water pimp.

[@stevenjlovelace]

I would use it.

[@TroutWest]

nice video

[@BC-hr2of]

outhouse is wild 😂

[@explorinwithlaurin]

Love seeing all the creativity!! I definitely wouldn’t be able to bring myself to use the glass outhouse 😅

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Yeah, I think the worst part is the fact that everyone there has come to see the outhouses so when you finish up everyone will be watching you come out too lol.

[@thomasfrye313]

Cool

[@retaylor6587]

Did you wonder why the locks are on the OUTSIDE of the outhouse door?

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I did think about that but then just figured its to stop being from showing up there after hours.

[@davekelly9657]

I would totally use the outhouse. Let's just say it has more privacy than the ones I've used in Wisconsin and Michigan out in the wild. Basically a crapper in nature. Just the toilet outside in nature.👀

[@beckyyoder1226]

I would love to know the background music used in this video.

[@SunnyWu]

Do the toilets actually work?

[@BobU2b1]

Proprietor Laurel passed away 7/2024. Plans developing to keep the Outhouse going.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Oh wow, did not know that. She was incredibly nice when we met her. Hopefully this can be kept going.

[@ocsrc]

That is amazing how they have water to the toilet. Why is there no sink ? I wonder if it used to be a real outhouse I remember in the 1970s there were still real outhouses here in rural Pennsylvania I was amazed that there were still hand pumps with Wells that were old style Wells that they had put a wooden platform over and they had these hand pump old style mechanical pumps that you would pump the water out of the well and there were quite a few old outhouses and some of them were still being used out in the country and others that were in town when you went down the alleyways on the side of buildings warehouses and other buildings there were actual outhouses I saw people using which totally blew my mind and I don't know if they didn't have any plumbing inside the warehouse's it's very possible that was the case and this was the only way they could go to the bathroom People don't realize that it's only been about a hundred years that we've had indoor plumbing and for many rural places it wasn't until the 30s or 40s that people started to get electricity In the 1940s it was very common to see farm houses that had hand pumps and outhouses and no electricity We really have it great compared to the way it used to be

[@nesleinf]

I am a little dissapointed that you did not check/show if the toilets were fully functional with water installations and outlet 😞

[@CactusAtlas]

Oh, man! This place is insane in the most pleasant of ways. Gotta love the creativity of places like this. Won't catch either of us using the outhouse though. 🤣 Shame we missed this when out in that direction though!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Using those outhouses would be really awkward, especially with them being the main attraction that people come there to see. All eyes would be on you when you exit.

[@ME-qr2kq]

@@SidetrackAdventures if all eyes were on me I would expect applause when I'm done lol

[@IEchuckie]

Better make sure your zipper is up

[@EricT3769]

Number 1 is a no brainer. Nature would have to be calling LOUDLY for me to use the glass outhouse for a number 2.

[@SharingtheRoad]

Now there is something you don't see everyday! 😂 I remember reading that there were some 2-story outhouses somewhere in the midwest, but this one takes the cake!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I've seen a picture of the 2 story outhouses. I imagine they are fine if you are on the 2nd floor.

[@SharingtheRoad]

@@SidetrackAdventures hahahahaha certainly better than being on the first!

[@eloite]

@@SharingtheRoad Certainly! If there is a leaking and the first floor has a ceiling fan, it will get a real SHTF situation.

[@IEchuckie]

Bottom floor for #1. Second floor for #2

[@cmcer1995]

I think a person would be safe using the Glass Outhouse if it were a bright sunny day, but...no pun intended, after sunset I believe you would become more visible as it got darker. Interesting pit stop though.

[@pennysaufley8974]

You should have flushed the toilets!! 😂

[@eloite]

The dragon is a miniature duplicate of the Galleta Meadows Dragon in Anza-Barrego Desert.

[@petergilchrist5980]

any one know where a muti colored slumpstone wall is in twentynine plams

[@1lthrnk]

You wanna see someone use the glass outhouse, just ask or dare any of the local Marines, those same marines are who helped emptying the bottles

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

Good old 29 stumps

[@dianeday1297]

I was stationed in 29 Palms in the early 90's. There's some weird "mo-fo's" out there...

[@robertlyman9789]

Kinda like the Salton Sea art

[@dvsmike]

I dunno, that glass outhouse, i would get anxiety, no way i coould go if i had too!

[@TheAsif5182]

if that type of place is in my country people would have been stole everything. i wonder how educated and livelyhood they have to get some roadside attraction . i love to be there someday . when i will be in california . Oh God accept me and my wish . i wanna be there forever .

[@spacechimp3199]

A loo with a view

[@chrisanderson5317]

The desert seems to draw weird attractions.

[@secretdaisy6484]

Thanks for that. I’m a graduate of an art academy and very interested in folk and outsider art like this and Howard Finster, Emery Blagdon etc. When I make my trip to the west I’m going to check out some of the places that you profiled, especially this site. I’m fascinated by abandoned places too. Thanks for sharing 👍☮️🌞🌟🎨🖌🖼💖

[@lesliecarr312]

Hmmm. The Glass Outhouse provides a clear view on immodesty.

[@jillv4006]

Amazing that people haven’t destroyed this

[@skyedog24]

Somebody's been to the swain family farm about 15 mi so. of Nampa on highway 45 . It appears to be somewhat dubious and incomplete recreation of the swain family farm along the Snake River. I did not see a Bible in that chapel such as at the Swain family farm Dr Swain and his family are all buried on their property . Dr Swain build a birdhouse everyday for his wife there are hundreds of birdhouses I don't know that he actually built one every day but it said that he did and it's worth a visit. This appears to be mimicking the swain farm. Which started out in the 1800s as a river crossing station in the Swain family

[@JamesBond-py8xs]

Art? Or stuff? Or maybe art stuff

[@IEchuckie]

You have quite the view while you're dropping a 2.

[@richardcrites1484]

Focus glass crapper lol

[@samuelspade889]

Drop a deuce and some juice

[@davekelly9657]

Milk crate challenge, yeah,nooooo.👍👍⚓⚓🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@alanbelliston700]

I found a toilet for him.

[@AlyxGlide]

pretty funny. people playing with garbage in the borderlands

[@mawi1172]

Gee, Honey. I just can't tell you enough how uninteresting toilets can be. 🙄🤯😖😖😖🤮

[@kpb96m]

OMG if you say "glass outhouse" one more time in this video I'll scream. Thankfully your editing is better now and you don't do that anymore.

[@BalzarRitchin]

Californians, smh. Overflowing with fruits and nuts. When you spent too much time alone in the desert....😵‍💫