RHH's photos with the keyword: rhyolite

There are over 2000 feral burros in Death Valley National Park, the descendants of burros brought in by prospectors before Death Valley became a national park. They are a huge problem in the park since they eat the available vegetation and displace the native wildlife. This wild burro was photographed just outside the park between Rhyolite and Beatty, Nevada, in the Amargosa Valley.

The Tom Kelly Bottle House is in Rhyolite, Nevada, a ghost town just outside of Death Valley National Park. The house was built in 1906 by Tom Kelly, an Australian goldminer using around 50,000 bottles. After building the house he auctioned it off and the Bennet family who won the auction lived in it from 1906 to 1914. It is now

The town of Rhyolite, Nevada, was a mining town that grew up and then died in the early 1900's. It is in the Bullfrog Hills northwest of Las Vegas. Gold was discovered there and the town boomed. At its peak, around 1907, it had a population of 10,000 with a railroad station and fifty saloons, but by 1920 after the mines ceased production there were only 14 residents. The town is now a tourist attraction with its ruined buildings and has become a site for weird open-air sculptures.

Rather appropriate, I thought, with Halloween coming, this statue is one of many in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. Nearly abandoned for many years it now boasts a number of rather strange sculptures which have become a tourist attraction. Among the sculptures are a number of these "ghosts" created by the Polish sculptor, Albert Szukalski,

An old abandoned car in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, once a flourishing mining town.

These shacks are in the old mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada, now a ghost town, but once a flourishing city with a bank, a school and a railway station.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Overbury Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday with the school behind it.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. Some of the old buildings are visible in the background.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Overbury Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday with the school behind it.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. The town is visited now not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures, some of which are shown in the insets here and in the previous photo. This is the train station, one of the best-preserved buildings in Rhyolite.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitors attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Cook Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday. The town is visited now not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures, some of which are shown in the insets.

It has been quite a year with four hospitalizations and a lot of recovery time, but I finally feel like I can keep up with posting and replying to comments. My apologies to those of you whose comments and good wishes I haven't replied to over the past five months. I've taken up posting where I left off. This is one of the old grave markers in the cemetery of the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. The background shows some of the Bullfrog Hills around the town and one of the few identifiable graves in the town cemetery.