It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Beatty.

[2][3] Bullfrog is near the Goldwell Open Air Museum and its Red Barn Art Center.

The Bullfrog jail, the barn, the museum's information center and its outdoor sculptures are located along a spur road leading from State Route 374 to Rhyolite.

[4] Bullfrog Mine was discovered by Frank "Shorty" Harris and Eddie Cross on August 9, 1904.

By the winter of 1904, Bullfrog had about a thousand people living in tents, dugouts and congested traffic made a demand for rail connections The Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad reached Rhyolite on May 22, 1907.