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| − | <Font Size ="4">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. | + | <Font Face="Harrington"><Font Size ="4">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 (2554 m).[1] Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (146 years ago) after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000. | 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] Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (146 years ago) after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000. | ||
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"I'll Tell ya friend, it wasn't as easy as the fourteen miles of bad road to Bodie."
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Description
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 (2554 m).[1] Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (146 years ago) after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000.
The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a ghost town by 1915 (107 years ago). The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Also registered as a California Historical Landmark,[3] the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly.[7] Bodie State Historic Park is partly supported by the Bodie Foundation.[8]
Why Bodie?
When I was young my mother and brother and I took vacations to Sequoia, King's Canyons, and Yosemite parks. We also visited relatives in South Dakota. On one of the trips, somewhere around 1971 or 1972, we stayed in Yosemite then went out east and up to South Dakota. On that trip for unknown reasons mom took us off the beaten path down 14 miles of road a VW bug should never have traveled. That put us in Bodie, California at around 9am. We spent the day there wandering around the ghost town, talking to another visitor who was quite familiar with the place. He had had family that had been born and raised and apparently lived their whole life in this fading place. I suspect he had ulterior motives for talking to my brother and I, that being the semi-hippie mother. He had no luck as we left and never saw him again but for that day we got a history lesson of this once thriving boom town.
Sources
Wikipedia page for Bodie [[1]]
California State Parks page [[2]]
Bodie's Website [[3]]
Bodie Foundation [[4]]
Maps
Google Earth [[5]] Tourism is encouraged. Some images are Courtesy of California State Parks, 2019.
