Bodie Ghost Town is one of the best-preserved, historic towns from the era of the wild, wild west. Whether you’re visiting ...

Driving north past the western edge of Mono Lake, we turned east on Highway 270. Thirteen miles down the road was Bodie, a ghost town near the Nevada border that proved more remarkable than we ...

Perhaps the most authentic ghost town in California, old Bodie invites visitors to explore and interpret the past themselves. Preserved in a state of "arrested decay," the 1880s gold- and silver ...

From Bodie, a 12-mile unimproved road requiring a 4-wheel drive, high-clearance vehicle leads to the sister ghost town of Aurora, a short distance across the Nevada border.

While the town's mines opened in 1861, Bodie's decline started in 1879. It was fully abandoned by 1942 when the last mine closed, and it became a State Historic Park in 1962. Bodie sits at an ...

BODIE-- The land was rich and life was cheap in Bodie. ... side of the Sierra Nevada to find their fortune ... has not been stripped clean like other ghost towns. Thirteen miles off the nearest.

The state’s fragile gold-mining ghost town was rattled by series of moderate earthquakes, ranging from magnitude 5.5 to 5.7, only 14 miles away.

2002-06-24 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- One is more Disneyland than ghost town, complete with shopkeepers in 1880s costume, re-enacted gunfights and mining tours. The other is desolate and dusty ...

BODIE (CBS/AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 rattled the remote California-Nevada state line but no damage or injuries were reported. The quake just struck after 7:36 a.m ...