Rhyolite Nevada A Ghost Town

Again, I went somewhere else instead of inside Death Valley. I went to Rhyolite, Nevada. It is a ghost town, but it wasn’t what I expected. I was expecting something along the lines of Old Tucson. It was a ghost town but instead of wooden buildings they were brick buildings that most of which were collapsing in ruble. But now that I think about it, wooden buildings would be long gone from weather and fire.

The town of Rhyolite was built in the early 1900s and was founded by miners. All around the southwest I find it hard to imagine how people lived in these desert areas in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Imagine that the only forms of travel were a horse or a horse and wagon. It would seem to me that moving around would take days. It took me an hour and a half to go from Pahrump to Rhyolite today. When I got to Rhyolite there was something that I didn’t understand.

As you come into the town, they have some statues that look like ghosts and the title is The Last Supper. It looked good and I took a picture of it. I spent about an hour walking around the town looking for images. I found a few and because of the sunlight I had to keep changing the ISO setting and the shutter speed on my camera. Most of the buildings were bright white brick while there was an old wooden caboose that was dark inside and required me to change things as I described above. You can see all my images of Rhyolite here .