Guides

4 long-form guides. Each one links the atlas locations it covers. Browse every location or view the interactive map

• Ghost towns of the Bullfrog district · 3 locations

  Rhyolite, Bullfrog, and Carrara — the photogenic gold-rush and marble-quarry ruins of the Bullfrog Mining District near Beatty, Nevada.

• Beatty: the last full-service stop before Death Valley's east side · 10 locations

  The Nye County town at US 95 and NV 374 that fuels, waters, and beds every trip to Rhyolite, the Bullfrog district, and Death Valley’s east side.

• Rockhounding southern Nevada: the rock, the rules, and the club · 5 locations

  What southern Nevada actually yields, how BLM personal-use collecting works, where the rule stops, and why the Las Vegas club beats going it alone.

• Three multi-day desert routes out of Las Vegas · 12 locations

  US 93 north to the Great Basin bristlecones, US 95 through the silver camps, and Death Valley west to the White Mountains — two to four days each.