What to do in Rhyolite, NV

Activities, attractions and tours

Goldwell Open Air Museum featuring outdoor art and desert views
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Goldwell Open Air Museum showing outdoor art and desert views
Goldwell Open Air Museum featuring tranquil scenes and desert views
Goldwell Open Air Museum which includes tranquil scenes, signage and desert views

Places to Visit in Rhyolite

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Top places to visit

1. Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park is the continental United States’ largest park. It’s also the hottest, driest and lowest. Despite harsh conditions, the park’s more than 3 million acres (1.3 million hectares) aren’t simply desert plains. Find mountains, canyons, sand dunes, extinct volcanic craters and even palm trees and wildflowers.
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Death Valley which includes desert views and tranquil scenes as well as a small group of people

2. Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

The Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes is a spectacular natural phenomenon in the heart of Death Valley. It consists of dunes 100 feet (30 meters) high that offer unobstructed views of the surrounding mountains. Notice the ever-changing patterns carved into this sandy landscape.
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Death Valley

3. Rhyolite Ghost Town

Rhyolite Ghost Town was inhabited for just 12 years, from 1904 to 1916. However, it flourished enormously during this short period. Wander the eerie, long-deserted streets of this prominent gold rush-era boomtown and marvel at the infrastructure that sprang up in such a short space of time.
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Rhyolite Ghost Town

4. Leadfield Ghost Town

Imagine being one of the 300 miners who streamed into Leadfield Ghost Town in 1926, expecting to make a fortune. Picture being one of them less than a year later, when the town was abandoned to the desert. It was started and promoted by Charles C. Julian, who marketed the development across California as one of the last great mines of the Death Valley mining boom. Within a few months he was escaping to Shanghai to avoid claims that he had lied to investors.
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Perched above Titus Canyon, this boom-and-bust mining town has the dubious honor of being one of the West’s most short-lived.

5. Titus Canyon

A rustic dirt road meanders through the narrow openings of spectacular Titus Canyon. It is known as one of the most picturesque and popular valleys in the region for passing through in your car. Drive along the twists and turns of the gorge, noticing the variety of rock formations and colors to your left and right.
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Death Valley

6. Goldwell Open Air Museum

Venture into the remote Mojave Desert to find the Goldwell Open Air Museum, a strange 15-acre (6-hectare) outdoor site where vast sculptures have stood since Belgian artist Albert Szukalski first founded the museum in 1984.
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Goldwell Open Air Museum showing desert views

Recommended things to do in Rhyolite

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Death Valley: Self-Guided Driving Audio Tour Via App: NZ$29
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What to do in Rhyolite

Discover the most popular places to visit in Rhyolite

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Visit a once thriving and prosperous gold mining town, which today rests in ghostly ruins on the edge of Death Valley’s wild desert.

Rhyolite Ghost Town
Goldwell Open Air Museum showing desert views

Goldwell Open Air Museum

Experience the Nevada desert through the eyes of acclaimed artists at this mysterious open-air museum, where giant sculptures populate an eerily empty landscape.

Goldwell Open Air Museum

Death Valley Nut and Candy Company

Enjoy an outing to Death Valley Nut and Candy Company during your stay in Beatty. Discover the area's desert landscape and countryside.

Death Valley Nut and Candy Company

Beatty Museum and Historical Society

You can spend time studying the exhibits at Beatty Museum and Historical Society during your travels in Beatty. Discover the area's desert landscape and countryside.

Beatty Museum and Historical Society

Cottonwood Park

Explore the great outdoors at Cottonwood Park, a lovely green space in Beatty. Discover the area's desert landscape and countryside.

Cottonwood Park

Beatty Community Center

Beatty Community Center is just one of the places to see in Beatty, so why not enjoy the other things to explore during your travels? Discover the area's desert landscape and casinos.

Beatty Community Center

 

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