And, being on the eastern edge of Death Valley, many people choose to add it to their sight-seeing itinerary. This is a very easy area to get to, with paved roads all the way into the ruins site. By 1911 the mine was closed and out of work miners began leaving for other areas. Like so many towns during the gold rush days, Rhyolite’s growth and rise was short-lived. Six months later, the two-tent mining camp’s population exceeded 5,000 people, and by 1907, the town of Rhyolite busted at its seams with 8,000 people, 50 saloons and 35 gambling tables, 19 hotels and 16 restaurants, a schoolhouse for 250 children, a symphony and opera house. This area is no different, except the concentration is very tightly grouped, as you come across tailings piles just about everywhere you explore. In 1904, two men found gold in a high rocky valley in the middle of the Nevada desert mountains. All throughout this area of the southwest are old abandoned mines…tens-of-thousands of them. It quickly swelled to almost 5,000 residents and by 1907 the town had electricity, phone service, water, a hospital, opera house and school. Rhyolite was a typical gold mining boom town, first established in 1905. A paved road heading north (left) from Hwy.
Rhyolite is 35 miles from the Furnace Creek Visitor Center on the way to Beatty, Nevada. It is not within the boundary of Death Valley National Park. The museum's Red Barn is the site of an arts festival called Albert's Tarantella, held each year in October.Įntrance to the museum is free, and it is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Rhyolite is a ghost town located near Beatty, NV, just on the outskirts of Death Valley National Park in the Bullfrog mining district. The ghost town of Rhyolite is on a mixture of federal and private land. The museum is a nonprofit organization and a member of Alliance of Artists Communities. They include Lady Desert: The Venus of Nevada, a cinder block sculpture by Hugo Heyrman, Tribute to Shorty Harris, by Fred Bervoets and a hard-carved female version of Icarus by Dre Peters along with several others. Three other Belgian artists added new works to the project after Szuzalski's death in 2000. Szukalski also created a work called Ghost Rider, with a similar figure getting ready to mount a bicycle. The arrangement brings to mind The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. The artwork shown above consists of ghostly, life-sized forms created by draping plaster-soaked burlap over live models who stood under it until the plaster was stiff enough to stand on its own. The Goldwell Open Air Museum began in 1984 when Belgian artist Albert Szukalski created a sculpture installation near Rhyolite's abandoned railroad station. These ghostly figures are part of an outdoor sculpture museum near Rhyolite. Turn left at the sign for Rhyolite a few miles after you cross the Nevada border. To get to Rhyolite from Death Valley, turn east off Hwy 190 about 19 miles north of Furnace Creek onto Daylight Pass Road. Unique among mining towns, Rhyolite had many buildings made from permanent materials rather than canvas and wood, so there's more to see than in many of the other gold rush spots in this part of the country. Headin out of my new digs at the El Portal Motel, and thinkin about pointin the 660 towards Rhyolite, a famous ghost town located about 5 miles southwest. In its heyday, Rhyolite had three train lines, three newspapers, three swimming pools, three hospitals, two undertakers, an opera, and symphony and 53 saloons.īy 1914, Rhyolite was in decline and by 1919, it was a deserted ghost town. Rhyolite grew as long as the gold held out, from 1905 through 1910. 374 will take you to the heart of the the town. The ghost town of Rhyolite is on a mixture of federal and private land. A paved road heading north (left) from Hwy. Rhyolite is 35 miles from the Furnace Creek Visitor Center on the way to Beatty, Nevada. One of the towns that sprang up after the strike was called Rhyolite, named for the area's unique volcanic rock. The ghost town of Rhyolite is on a mixture of federal and private land. It happened when Shorty Harris and Ed Cross struck gold in August 1904, in the Bullfrog Mountains west of Death Valley.
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