Zzyzx, California
| Zzyzx, California | |
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| unincorporated community | |
Freeway exit sign to Zzyzx Road off Interstate 15
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 Zzyzx, California
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| Coordinates: 35°8′35″N 116°6′15″W / 35.14306°N 116.10417°WCoordinates: 35°8′35″N 116°6′15″W / 35.14306°N 116.10417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Bernardino |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 92309 |
| Area codes | 442/760 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1662336 |
Zzyzx (/ˈzaɪzᵻks/ ZY-zəks), formerly Camp Soda and Soda Springs, is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States, within the boundaries of Mojave National Preserve. It is the former site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center. The site is also the location of Lake Tuendae, originally part of the spa, and now a refuge habitat of the endangered Mohave tui chub.
Zzyzx Road is a 4.5-mile-long (7.2 km), part paved and part dirt, rural collector road in the Mojave Desert. It runs from Interstate 15 generally south to the Zzyzx settlement.
The settlement is in area codes 442 and 760 and ZIP Code 92309. The nearest town is Baker, California, 7 miles (11 km) north on I-15. Las Vegas, Nevada, is the nearest major city, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast.
Soda Springs, a natural spring, has long seen human activity. The area was a prehistoric quarry site, and projectile points and rock art can be found in the area. The Mojave Road ran past the spring which was guarded by the Hancock Redoubt in 1860, during the Bitter Spring Expedition and by Camp Soda Springs, garrisoned by the U. S. Army from 1867 to 1870. Later Soda Springs was the name of the station of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad that passed there. Remnants of a wagon road stop and railroad artifacts are readily seen. Evaporative salt mining and mill sites can be found here as well.
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