If you’ve looked at a map of the area around Pahrump, you know that Pahrump is very near the historical Goldfield (covered last time on this blog), near Armagosa Valley (where that Opera house is), near the ghost town of Rhyolite, near Beatty, and Death Valley. And of course near Las Vegas.
My brother had taken geology classes in college many years ago and the geology is so interesting in this area that I invited him to bring any books he had on the geology of the area or in general and come on over to visit. He lives 90 miles north of Los Angeles so it’s only a 3 hour drive for him, heh.
It’s very interesting to me to drive through these ancient valleys and see all the exposed strata layered along the hillsides, the uplifts, and the escarpments here and there. All very interesting. And so we planned an excursion around the area for a day. Everything we visited is within a day’s travel of Pahrump.
First stop was a visit to Rhyolite. A famous ghost town that only existed for a few years after a mineral strike. It blossomed and died.
First a couple shots of the road as we head to Rhyolite. And then the glass bottle home of one of the early miners in the town. It’s being restored. There are caretakers here in Rhyolite who stay here year round I guess, but in the 3 visits I’ve made here, I’ve never seen one of them. Guess they aren’t very sociable.
