Nye County, Nevada
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- Arc Dome — Natural · Nye County, NV
11,773-foot high point of the Toiyabe Range and namesake of the large Arc Dome Wilderness in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Summit approaches via the Toiy…
- Ash Meadows NWR — Wildlife · Nye County, NV
Desert oasis with 26 species found nowhere else on Earth, including the critically endangered Devil's Hole pupfish — a species that has survived in a single …
- Bellehelen — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Early 1900s silver-lead camp in the Kawich Range country east of Tonopah approaches. A short boom left mill and camp scatter on remote district roads—classic…
- Belmont — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Remarkably intact silver camp in Monitor Valley. The 1876 Nye County Courthouse still stands — roofless but solid — alongside mill ruins, a saloon foundation…
- Berlin Ghost Town — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Part of Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park with 30 original structures including a mill, assay office, and miners cabins. A separate fossil shelter nearby protect…
- Berlin Mill (separate ruins) — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
The Berlin stamp mill stands with the preserved Berlin townsite inside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park—one of Nevada’s most intact industrial mining scenes. Mu…
- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park — Historic · Nye County, NV
The only place on Earth where you can see an intact ghost town and 225-million-year-old marine reptile fossils in the same park. The fossil shelter protects …
- Big Dune — Natural · Nye County, NV
A several-square-mile complex of Mojave sand dunes in Amargosa Valley managed by BLM as a recreation area and ACEC, including a tall primary dune often cited…
- Black Canyon Petroglyphs — Petroglyph · Nye County, NV
Remote volcanic canyon with 400+ rock art images including unusual bighorn sheep hunting scenes and shamanic figures across multiple ancient cultures. One of…
- Bonnie Claire — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad siding turned supply town for Death Valley mines. Crumbling adobe foundations, a rusted water tank, and old rail grade remnant…
- Bullfrog — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
The discovery site of the Bullfrog Mining District in 1904, just a mile from Rhyolite. The original Bullfrog townsite had hotels, saloons, and a post office …
- Carrara — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
A marble quarry town 9 miles south of Beatty — Nevada's desert version of its Italian namesake. The American Carrara Marble Company laid out the townsite in …
- Cloverdale — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Ranch-and-stage settlement in Cloverdale Valley west of the Toiyabe approaches that also supported nearby mining traffic. Thin cottonwood-and-foundation land…
- Diana's Punchbowl — Hot Spring · Nye County, NV
A geothermal crater where superheated water has dissolved through the desert floor, creating a boiling pool rimmed in yellow sulfur. Too hot to enter — purel…
- Downeyville — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Short-lived mining camp in the Paradise Peak / Downeyville district near the Nye–Churchill line west of Ione country. Another thin central Nevada ghost for d…
- Easy Chair Crater — Geology · Nye County, NV
Prominent Quaternary cinder cone on the Lunar Crater Back Country Byway—named for its high-backed ‘easy chair’ silhouette. Part of the Lunar Crater volcanic …
- Ellsworth — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Tiny silver camp in the Nye County hills with scattered stone foundations and mine dumps across a quiet desert hillside. One of Nevada's more obscure and sel…
- Gold Center — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Short-lived supply and milling town in the Bullfrog Mining District, founded in December 1904 south of Beatty and Rhyolite. It briefly supported a post offic…
- Grantsville — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Union Canyon silver camp west of Ione, named for Ulysses S. Grant after 1863 discoveries and revived after 1877 with a large stamp mill. Schoolhouse, mill ru…
- Hot Creek Springs — Hot Spring · Nye County, NV
National Natural Landmark warm springs and marsh in the White River Valley on Wayne E. Kirch Wildlife Management Area — a boulder-lined soaking pool fed by c…
- Ione — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Quiet semi-inhabited silver camp in the Shoshone Mountains with intact 19th-century stone and adobe buildings including a beautiful old stone church. Canyon …
- Johnnie — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Gold camp and residual populated place in the Johnnie Mining District on the west slope of the Spring Mountains foothills, roughly fifteen miles north of Pah…
- Lunar Crater Volcanic Field — Geology · Nye County, NV
Over 100 volcanic vents, cinder cones, and a pristine maar crater in central Nevada. NASA used Easy Chair Crater to train Apollo astronauts — the resemblance…
- Manhattan — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
A gold camp that refused to die — boomed in 1905, surged again in the 1930s with placer gold dredging. A small population still lives here. Old dredge tailin…
- Mount Jefferson North Summit — Natural · Nye County, NV
Highest of the three summits of Mount Jefferson in the Toquima Range (North Summit ~11,941 ft), inside Alta Toquima Wilderness / Humboldt-Toiyabe National Fo…
- Reveille — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Reveille was a remote 1860s silver camp in the Reveille Range, now reduced to stone ruins and foundations in open central Nevada country. Visitation is near …
- Rhyolite — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
One of the West's most photogenic ghost towns — ballooned to 10,000 residents during the 1905 Death Valley gold rush then collapsed just as fast. The three-s…
- Royston Turquoise District — Rockhound · Nye County, NV
One of a select few mines in the US open to the public for turquoise collecting. The Royston mine produces distinctive brown spiderweb-matrix turquoise prize…
- Sedan Crater — Historic · Nye County, NV
Sedan Crater is the scar from the 6 July 1962 Plowshare nuclear excavation test on Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site. The ~1,280-ft-wide, ~320-…
- Table Mountain — Geology · Nye County, NV
Namesake high volcanic tableland (~10,000 ft average) at the core of the 92,600-acre Table Mountain Wilderness in the Monitor Range. One of the Great Basin's…
- Tonopah Area — Agate & Petrified Wood — Rockhound · Nye County, NV
BLM land around Tonopah produces agate, jasper, and petrified wood. The Tonopah Historic Mining Park lets you explore actual 1900 underground silver mine wor…
- Tonopah Historic Mining Park — Historic · Nye County, NV
Managed 100+ acre outdoor museum on original Tonopah silver-camp ground covering four historic companies (including Mizpah, Silver Top, Desert Queen). Self-g…
- Tybo — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Remote lead-silver camp in the Hot Creek Range with a standing stone charcoal kiln complex among the best-preserved in central Nevada. Documented extensively…
- Wayne E. Kirch Wildlife Management Area — Wildlife · Nye County, NV
NDOW-managed desert wetland complex in White River Valley with five reservoirs (Adams-McGill, Dacey, Cold Springs, Haymeadow, Tule) stocked for fishing and c…