Rhyolite is at the northern end of the Amargosa Desert in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. Nestled in the Bullfrog Hills, about northwest of Las Vegas, it is about south of Goldfield, and south of Tonopah. Roughly to the east lie Beatty and the Amargosa River. To the west, roughly from Rhyolite, the Funeral and Grapevine Mountains of the Amargosa Range rise between the Amargosa Desert in Nevada and Death Valley in California. State Route 374, passing about south of Rhyolite, links Beatty to Death Valley via Daylight Pass. Rhyolite is about west of Yucca Mountain and the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is adjacent to the Nevada Test Site.