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| - If you are a hiking boots, sun screen, off roading/camping type, you might turn up your nose at this ghost town. It's definitely clearly marked and set up for your enjoyment, but it's not a circus that Calico Ghost Town is, either.
If you want a different family friendly outing and like driving up to attractions in your sedan- this is your kind of place, and definitely mine.
It's a smooth drive from Vegas, take 95 north and go for about 100 miles till it dead ends into 374. Turn left and look for the signs on your right about 4 miles down the road.
Rhyolite boasts an "outdoor museum"- a few fun and cool sculptures, awesome ruins of original buildings, and a few that have been partially restored. The original structures are surrounded by fence for everyone's safety, the creepy ones on the area of the "museum" are much more recently abandoned sheds and dwellings. Those are not roped off, but I certainly didn't venture inside any of them nor did I let my kids get too close.
We arrived with only about an hour of hazy daylight left, because I originally followed directions link from Yelp and pretty much ended up in Shoshone, CA.
This derailed my trip, but definitely added some color to it!
The upside was that we had pretty much entire Rhyolite to ourselves with not a soul in sight, which made it so much more awesome and eerie.
Definitely check it out, it's family friendly and different.
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