Manhattan, Nevada came into its own in 1905 when gold was finally discovered, four decades after prospectors working nearby in Belmont unknowingly walked right past it. That delay shaped everything that followed. What remains today is a quiet place with a small year round population, weathered buildings, and mining remains spread across the valley, each one holding a piece of the town’s short but intense history. Manhattan and Belmont sit close enough to one another that visiting both in a singl