Bodie, California - Wikipedia Bodie ( ˈboʊdiː BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, [6] at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2,554 m) [1]
Bodie State Historic Park Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town Visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had around 2,000 structures and a population of roughly 8,000 people
Visiting Bodie, Californias Most Authentic Ghost Town Welcome to Bodie, California’s most authentic ghost town! Located in the hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, not too far from the incredible Mono Lake, Bodie is a beautiful reminder of the Wild West
Bodie | Gold Mine and Ghost Town | Museum and Tours Visiting Bodie is the most authentic way to see the real-life setting of the California gold rush From 1877 to 1882, Bodie was a bustling town with close to 8,000 residents and produced more than $38 million in gold and silver
Bodie State Historic Park | Visit California Today, you can walk the dusty, silent streets of this fascinating historic site, with shops, hotels, and simple homes carefully preserved to look as they did when Bodie ceased to be Look for period images on newspapers stuffed into the walls as makeshift insulation
Bodie State Historic Park, CA - DesertUSA Bodie was named after Waterman S Body (also known as William S Bodey), who discovered gold here in 1859 The change in spelling of the town's name has often been attributed to an illiterate sign painter, but it was really a deliberate change by the citizenry to ensure proper pronunciation
Bodie Ghost Town and State Historical Park, California Of all the hundreds of ghost towns across the Southwest, none is as authentic and well preserved as the former gold mining settlement of Bodie, built high in the hills on the east side of the Sierra Nevada in a particularly remote part of California, near the state border
Bodie Historic District - U. S. National Park Service Bodie Historic District, the best-preserved ghost town from the California Gold Rush, is located 7 miles south of Bridgeport, California at an elevation of 8,379 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Bodie, California | Plan Your Trip to Bodie Bodie is located in the Basin Range of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, about 13 miles East of Highway 395 in central California Take U S Hwy 395 to State Hwy 270 and drive 10 miles east until the paved road ends, then continue for 3 miles of an unpaved dirt road