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Bodie (/ ˈ b oʊ d iː / 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 (2554 m). [1]
Looking west toward the Sierra Nevada on Hwy 270 outside Bodie, 2012. The route connects U.S. Route 395 with Bodie State Historic Park.About 3.5 miles (5.6 km) before entering the park, the road becomes unpaved, and is maintained by the California Department of Parks and Recreation (California State Parks) instead of being officially part of the state highway system maintained by Caltrans.
The Bodie Hills is a low mountain range in Mono County, California, in the United States. [2] The highest peak is Potato Peak at an altitude of 10,220 ft (3,115 m). [1] The Bodie Hills are between Bridgeport and the Nevada border, where they become the Bodie Mountains in Mineral County, Nevada.
Welcome to Bodie, California. The once bustling mining town, known for it's shootouts, bar room brawls and stagecoach holdups is now just a shadow of itself. It sits deep in the desert, almost as ...
Joe Hahner was the last barber to work in Bodie. Firehouse Bodie was subject to frequent fires, most notably in 1892 and 1932. The California Conservation Corps rebuilt this building in the 1930s. Wheaton and Luhrs George H. Wheaton and Nicholas C. Luhrs operated a general store here in the 1880s, which was later purchased by James Cain in 1898.
The Bodie Mountains are a mountain range primarily in western Mineral County, Nevada. [ 1 ] They extend westward into Mono County, California , where they become the Bodie Hills with the mining district and town of Bodie, California.
Bodie termination Bodie and Benton Railway route Mono Mills termination point in 1914. As the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company, the railroad was established in 1881 to link the gold-mining town of Bodie to the Bodie Wood and Lumber Company's newly built sawmill, Mono Mills, 32 miles south of Bodie along the eastern shore of Mono Lake.
California State Route 120 climbs west from Lee Vining 12 miles (19 km) to the top of Tioga Pass, the east entrance to Yosemite National Park. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Lee Vining CDP covers an area of 5.2 square miles (13 km 2 ), 99.95% of it land and 0.05% of it water.