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Zzyzx Road Interchange

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Zzyzx, California is a settlement in San Bernardino County, California, formerly the site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center. The area is also the location of Lake Tunedae, one of the refuge habitats of the endangered Mohave tui chub.

Zzyzx Road is a 7.2 km/4.5 mile long, part paved and part dirt, rural collector road in the Mojave Desert. It runs from Interstate 15 generally south to the Zzyzx settlement.

The road became the setting for a low budget movie of the same name released in 2006. The movie was made at a cost of 2.1 million dollars and grossed a whopping $30.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx_Road
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Coordinates:   35°11'44"N   116°8'26"W

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  • Backseater (guest)
    Curtis Springer, the radio evangelist who ran the health spa, named the place "Zzyzx Mineral Springs" and claimed it was the last word in the english language. See Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Howe_Springer
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