Death Valley appetizers: Rhyolite & Goldwell

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Caitlyn

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July 21, 2024

I love weird roadside attractions, especially when they’re off the beaten path and have relatively few visitors. So how could I not visit this place when I was in the neighborhood?

From our motel in Beatty, NV, we headed toward Death Valley National Park before sunrise.

Seriously can’t get over how neon the sunrises are here.

A quick 15 minute drive away, you turn onto a very accessible, easy, dirt road for the…

Rhyolite Historic Townsite

The Goldwell Open Air Museum to your left as you drive toward the ghost town. We passed it and would head back on our way out.

This was a really pretty place to watch the sun rise. There’s really not much to see at Rhyolite itself, just ruins of some of the buildings layed out around a short road – but that in no way minimizes how cool it is to imagine what it once was.

We went as far as we could on the short road, turned around, stared at the sky for a while, and parked at the lot for the…

Goldwell Open Air Museum

The main attraction of this place is the replica of The Last Supper molded out of plaster.

There are platforms you can sit on inside of the sculpture, you can get some cool photos.

We looooved the frame exhibit the most, as you can probably tell below haha.
And the Barbie was very fitting and coincidental since I’d finally watched it for the first time on the plane ride in the day before.