My family and I took a small road trip to a ghost town today. I am a history major and I LOVE old, abandoned, and rundown buildings so when the family asked what I wanted to do for Father's Day this was my suggestion. The town is called Rhyolite, NV, about 115 miles from where we live in Las Vegas. Here are a few pics.
The pics are:
1 - Town sign with mining area in the back
2 - Rhyolite Mercantile store
3 - House made of glass bottles from the saloon
4 - Train Depot/Casino
5 - Old train car
6 - Bank
7 - Bank
8 - General store
9 - Jail
10 - School
11 - Grave
12 - Grave
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Way cool!!!!!!
We have towns like that all over in utah. I went to 2 or 3 one day in the middle of nowhere.
Looks like detroit to me...
There is a bunch out here in Nevada. Hopefully we will be visiting more. If we finish up with those then we will travel out towards Utah. :)
Sweet. Suposedly Stockton is a cool place to visit, just over an hour I think from me near tooele. I'd be up for a bit of a drive if you make it out this way.
That is pretty cool. I like to think about what those places looked like when people were using them and who may have walked through them in years past. It makes me think about how short and fleeting our lives here really are. Not too many places like that back here in the east.
Same here. You have to wonder who traveled through there and what daily life was like. Very cool to see what's left. Certainly not much like that in the midwest.
That scenery would make a perfect backdrop for car photo shoot