April 26, 2017 Gold Butte, Nevada

We drove the dirt road to Gold Butte ghost town site.

It is a National Back Country Byway.  Our first stop was Devil’s Throat. In the bottom photo there is our tiny car with the blue boat on top to show you how big this huge sinkhole is. 

Colors along the way over a wash full of greenery and joshua trees. Lots of spring flowers at this altitude. Brittlebush and mojave yuccas.

Green wash with flowers and a joshua tree forest. Pink desert four o’clock flowers with joshua trees. They open up at 4 pm for the night, then close when it gets hot.  It was only 3 pm, so they were only partly open.

Flowers, yuccas and a view back the way we came. Flowers on the ridge.

Brittle bush, orange mallow and desert marigolds. The old corral at the Gold Butte townsite.

This is about all that is left of the townsite and mine. A few cement foundations and a few pieces of equipmet laying around, but lots of flowers.  Orange and yellow flowers with a yucca on the way back.

An outcropping on the way back. Views of red rocks and colorful formations.

Views of red rocks.  Another old corral.

A flowery view of Whitney pocket where more campsites are.  An arch near our campsite.

Vivid evening colors and clouds from our site.  Desert four o’clocks, yellow and orange, rattlesnake weed and vetch.

Blue indigobush,yellow  brittlebush and red range ratany, poppies, paint brush and  orange, pink  and yellow  flowers.  Sunset with joshua trees from camp.