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Beatty, Nevada Calendar of Annual Events MARCH Rhyolite Resurrection Festival775-553-2424 MAY Best of the West -- NHPA Sanctioned Horeshoe Tournament775-553-2424 JULY Old-Fashioned Family 4th of July775-553-2225 SEPTEMBER Beatty Days775-553-2424 OCTOBER Rally the Valley Motorcycle Run775-553-2424 Lost River Rock & Gem Jamboree775-553-2424 Pitch & Witch Horseshoe Tournament775-553-2424 Burro Races775-553-2424 Beatty Grand Prix Off-Road Motorcycle Race775-553-2424 Western Cup Cowboy Shooting Championship775-553-2424 Welcome to Beatty These businesses are pleased to welcome you Local Area Information BEATTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 119 E. Main Street. 775-553-2424. We're easy to find beside the highway and glad to help with tourist and relocation information. Stop in and visit our gift shop. We'll help you find your way to the nearby wonders of Rhyolite, Titus Canyon and Death Valley, and the fabulous underground Amargosa River. Stay the night in Beatty! Casino Hotels BURRO INN Motel Casino. Highway 95 South. 800-843-2078. Come in and experience genuine small town hospitality. Enjoy home cooked meals in our award winning restaurant. Try your luck on our slot machines, video poker, black jack table. We have 62 deluxe motel rooms, 43 full hook up R.V. sites. We're home to "Best of the West" horseshoe tournament. STAGE COACH Hotel Casino. Highway 95. 775-553-2419. For fun food and fortune stay at the Stage Coach. We have two great restaurants, food specials for seniors, weekend entertainment, free overnight motorhome parking, budget room rates, swimming pool and jacuzzi. All modern accommodations with an Old West Theme. A brief History & Description of Beatty, Nevada by David W. Toll Four Years after the discovery of silver ore at Tonopah, and two years after the fabulous discoveries at Goldfield, prospectors organized the Bullfrog Mining District and established a number of small communities, Beatty among them. Because of its favored location astride the usually underground Amargosa River (which makes most of its long winding way to Death Valley below the surface), Beatty survives while the livelier mining towns of Bullfrog and Rhyolite are dead. Beatty today is important as a gateway to Death Valley, as the first community of size north of Las Vegas, and as a headquarters for exploring and rockhounding. An information station for Death Valley National Monument is located just west of the stop sign at the center of town, and the Chamber of Commerce is a short distance to the east of the sign. The Exchange Club bar is one of the art treasures in town, and is well stocked with the usual lubricants and gambling games. The Stagecoach and the Burro Inn, are on the north and south sides of town respectively. Restaurants, groceries, gasoline, auto repair, lodging and all services for motorists are available. Beatty's environs are among the most spectacular in the world, and Beatty is a good base for exploring the spectacular countryside. Nevada Route 374 leads to the historic ghost town of Rhyolite and over Daylight Pass -- or better, take the unique and thrilling digression through Titus Canyon (when it's open) into Death Valley. Rhyolite is covered separately on a following page and the Monument is mostly in California, placing it, alas, beyond the embrace of this book. South of Beatty there are two areas of interest. One is the Beatty Dunes west of US 95 and accessible by graded dirt road. This romantic feature was the setting for much of the movie Cherry 2000, starring Melanie Griffith as its future-shocked and violence-prone heroine. Most days you'll have this curious geographical feature to yourself. The ruins of Carrara, a marble quarry named for the famous Italian source of raw materials for Michelangelo, are easily visible to the east about nine miles south of Beatty. There are a few concrete ruins along a bumpy track that proceeds from the highway into the colorfully uplifted and folded strata of the hills. The striped hillsides attracted the stone workers who established the quarry in 1904, shipping their cut and dressed stones to Las Vegas by rail from the Tonopah and Tidewater depot here. A hotel with a large bathing pool made stopping here a special pleasure in the old days.