Belmont, Nevada ·
A remote, still-serving Belmont saloon marketed as dating to the Nevada mining boom of 1867.
Dirty Dick’s Belmont Saloon operates in Belmont, a living ghost town whose silver boom began after an 1865 strike and whose county-seat era began in 1867. Nevada Tourism promotes the bar as 1867-built and “serving since 1867,” but that specific building and continuity claim has not yet been independently documented.
A silver strike sparked Belmont's development as a mining town in the Toquima Range.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Visit The Iconic Belmont Ghost Town North of Tonopah"; Belmont town-history summary
Belmont became the Nye County seat. Nevada Tourism also promotes Dirty Dick’s as an 1867-built saloon, but the relationship between the town's county-seat date and the present saloon building has not been independently established.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Legendary Nevadans"; Belmont town-history summary
Belmont's final court case occurred before Nye County's seat moved to Tonopah, according to Travel Nevada's Belmont Courthouse history.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Belmont Courthouse"
Belmont Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The district listing does not by itself establish the construction date or historic use of Dirty Dick’s building.
Source: Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, National Register of Historic Places—Nevada list; Travel Nevada, "Belmont Courthouse"
Eater Las Vegas identified Tracy Bilyeu as owner of Dirty Dick’s Belmont Saloon and described the venue as serving both visitors and the local community.
Source: Eater Las Vegas, "Where the Wild West Never Left: The 150-Year-Old Legacy of Nevada's Saloons"
Every claim gets rated. A business's own website can never earn "documented."
Nevada Tourism currently markets Dirty Dick’s as an 1867-built saloon. No primary or independent site-specific building record was located in this review, so the claim should be attributed and not presented as conclusive fact.
Nevada Tourism uses the phrase "serving since 1867," but no complete business-license, tax, deed, ownership, or operating record was located. The claim has not been tested against Prohibition, town decline, possible closures, or changes in use and name.
Town-history sources identify Belmont as county seat beginning in 1867, while Travel Nevada says the final court case was held there in 1905 before the seat moved to Tonopah.
Eater Las Vegas directly identifies Tracy Bilyeu as current owner and quotes her describing the remote location and the bar's community role. The legal entity and property ownership record remain unresolved.
No source located in this research — including the saloon's own Nevada Tourism promotion — makes this claim. Nevada's oldest documented saloon is the Genoa Bar & Saloon in Genoa, tracing to 1853, fourteen years before Dirty Dick's marketed 1867 date.
Belmont’s 1867 county-seat designation proves that Dirty Dick’s was built and opened as a saloon in 1867.
Belmont did become Nye County’s seat in 1867, and state tourism currently promotes Dirty Dick’s as 1867-built. But no reviewed deed, building survey, license, or contemporaneous source independently links the present saloon structure or business to that year.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Legendary Nevadans"; Travel Nevada, "Belmont Courthouse"
Dirty Dick’s has served alcohol continuously since 1867.
Nevada Tourism uses "serving since 1867," but uninterrupted operation has not been established through site-specific records. Potential closures, reuse, licensing gaps, and Prohibition-era operation remain unresearched.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Get a Little Out There with Alex Honnold: Episode Three Itinerary"
Belmont Saloon was a verified former name of Dirty Dick’s.
No reliable source reviewed establishes Belmont Saloon as a former legal or commercial name for the current Dirty Dick’s business.
Source: No independently verified former-name record located in this review
Dirty Dick’s can be reached at (775) 482-3010.
The candidate number was not verified as a Dirty Dick’s contact number, and Nevada Tourism has previously stated that the bar has no telephone. Visitors should obtain current information from Nevada Tourism or the venue’s active social channels before making the remote trip.
Source: Travel Nevada, "Dirty Dick’s Belmont Saloon"
The saloon remains a destination within Belmont’s preserved mining-town landscape and a gathering point for residents and backcountry visitors. Owner Tracy Bilyeu has described it as a place serving both visitors seeking the Old West and the local community.
Dirty Dick’s is in Belmont, a remote living ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, roughly 46 miles northeast of Tonopah.
Nevada Tourism markets Dirty Dick's Belmont Saloon as an 1867-built saloon that has served continuously since that year, in Belmont, a former Nye County seat and now a living ghost town. No independent deed, building survey, or business license was located in this research to confirm the specific building's construction date or the saloon's uninterrupted operation.
Nevada Tourism promotes the saloon as 1867-built, but no site-specific building record was located in this review. The date matches Belmont's county-seat year, not independently verified construction of the present saloon structure.
No documented claim in this research supports that, and the saloon's own Nevada Tourism promotion doesn't make that claim either. Nevada's oldest documented saloon is the Genoa Bar & Saloon in Genoa, tracing to 1853. Dirty Dick's is currently marketed as 1867-built, a date that has not been independently verified against site-specific records.
That is a current tourism claim, but it has not been independently verified. A full continuity assessment would require licensing, ownership, tax, deed, and use records covering Prohibition, Belmont's decline, and later revival.
Eater Las Vegas identified Tracy Bilyeu as the current owner in 2025. The sources reviewed do not establish the legal operating entity or whether she owns the underlying real property.
82 Main Street, Belmont, NV 89404
Dirty Dick’s is in remote Belmont, roughly 46 miles northeast of Tonopah. State tourism describes variable, remote-location operations. Verify that it is open through current venue social channels or Nevada Tourism, and prepare for limited services, fuel, weather changes, dirt roads, and unreliable mobile connectivity.