Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town is named for rhyolite, an igneous rock composed of light-colored silicates. Rhyolite’s population dropped well below 1,000 by 1920, and it was...
