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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When a clip of Bodie was posted onto TikTok, people admitted they would be adding the ghost town to their bucket lists.. One gushed: "It's an amazing place to visit." Another said: "I've been to ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Though its mines were still relatively profitable, it didn’t stop the decline. And by 1915, Bodie was commonly referred to as a “ghost town”, with its businesses and establishments abandoned.

BODIE, Calif. — During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were camped in Yosemite Valley when learning of an exceptional ghost town on the ...