Bodie state historic park

Bodie ghost town is a historic state park in California that is the site of an abandoned city. Visit a real life authentic wild west gold mining ghost town!

California's Bodie Ghost Town is an old gold mining town with a rowdy and haunted past. Use this guide for tips to visit Bodie State Historic Park!

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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 a population of nearly 10,000 people. The town is named for Waterman S. Body (William Bodey), who had discovered small amounts of gold in hills north of Mono Lake. In 1875, a mine cave-in revealed pay dirt, which led to purchase of the mine by the Standard Company in 1877. People flocked to Bodie and transformed it from a town of a few dozen to a…

California's Bodie Ghost Town is an old gold mining town with a rowdy and haunted past. Use this guide for tips to visit Bodie State Historic Park!

California: Images of the Golden State - The Atlantic: Rustic wooden buildings, part of the gold-mining ghost town of Bodie, stand in Bodie State Historic Park. Julien McRoberts / Tetra Images RF / Getty

Bodie State Historical Park in the high altitude Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a fascinating glimpse into the past. Bodie is a gold mining ghost town that as been preserved in a …

In place of gunslingers and Gold Rush fortune hunters, tourists now flood the once raucous and bustling streets of Bodie, California. A State Historic Park that hosts over 200,000 visitors annually, Bodie boasted a reputation as one of wildest upstarts in the West. At 8,375 feet, the high desert town has seen its share of extremes over the years. Arid summer temperatures and