The last stop on our ghost town tour comes after the longest drive of the trip. A further three-and-a-half hours north of Cerro Gordo is Bodie, high up (around 8,300 feet) in the Bodie Hills east ...

Bodie’s mines were mostly depleted by the mid-1880s. Two devastating fires ravaged the town, one in 1892 and another in 1932. The last residents decamped in the 1940s, after which the ghost town ...