Rhyolite
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: ghost town in Nye County, Nevada
- Also known as: “Rhyolite, Nevada” and “Rhyolite, NV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Goldwell Open Air Museum.
Goldwell Open Air Museum
Museum
Photo: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Goldwell Open Air Museum is an outdoor sculpture park near the ghost town of Rhyolite in the U.S. state of Nevada. The 7.8-acre site is located at the northern end of the Amargosa Valley, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and about 4 miles west of Beatty off State Route 374.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bullfrog and Beatty.
Bullfrog
Locality
Bullfrog is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles west of Beatty.
Beatty
Photo: David Balmer, CC BY 3.0.
Beatty is an unincorporated town along the Amargosa River in Nye County, Nevada, United States. U.S. Route 95 runs through the town, which lies between Tonopah, about 90 miles to the north and Las Vegas, about 120 miles to the southeast.
Gold Center
Locality
Gold Center was a mining town in Nye County, Nevada. Located in the Bullfrog Mining District south of Tonopah, Gold Center was established in December 1904 with a United States Post Office being authorized on January 21, 1905. Gold Center is situated 4 miles southeast of Rhyolite.
Rhyolite
- Category: ghost town
- Location: Nye, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.90383° or 36° 54′ 14″ northLongitude
-116.82888° or 116° 49′ 44″ westElevation
3,819 feet (1,164 metres)Open location code
8585W53C+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 150968333OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Rhyolite” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريولايت”
- Chechen: “Риолит”
- Chinese: “Rhyolite”
- Chinese: “賴奧萊特”
- Dutch: “Rhyolite”
- French: “Rhyolite”
- German: “Rhyolite”
- Italian: “Rhyolite”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rhyolite”
- Navajo: “Tsé Dinilchííʼ (kinsááʼ)”
- Navajo: “Tsé Dinilchííʼ”
- Persian: “ریولایت، نوادا”
- Persian: “ریولایت”
- Polish: “Rhyolite”
- Portuguese: “Rhyolite”
- Russian: “Риолит”
- South Azerbaijani: “رهیولیت، نوادا”
- Spanish: “Rhyolite”
- Tatar: “Риолит”
- Ukrainian: “Ріоліт”
- Vietnamese: “Rhyolite, Nevada”
- Vietnamese: “Rhyolite”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rhyolite Ghost Casino and Rhyolite Ghost Town.
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