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West, Nevada
Rhyolite NV
Bullfrog boom ruin
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: eyes-only: Cook Bank shell, depot, glass-glittered town dumps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1905 Bullfrog district boomtown of 5,000 with concrete banks and a bottle house, dead by 1916, now BLM's showpiece Nevada ghost
BLM Tonopah Field Office manages the Rhyolite Historic Area; Cook Bank ruin and Tom Kelly bottle house documented
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Unstable ruinsDesert heat, open mine features on the fringes
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