Legend has it that any visitor who dares to take anything -- even a rock -- from this Gold Rush ghost town, isolated beyond the eastern Sierra, will be punished. Over the decades, "the curse of Bodie" ...

Walking around this former gold mining town, now nicknamed Bodie Ghost Town, put it into perspective for me the life I now have – why I can be grateful for it, how I can give thanks to those who ...

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.

Tucked away in the Sierra Nevada, Bodie isn’t just a ghost town—it’s a perfectly preserved time capsule of the Wild West. Once booming with gold miners and outlaws, it now stands eerily ...

Bodie started being referred to as a ghost town as early as the 1910s, but a few people actually still lived there, Hedlund says. The town still contained a post office and school house until 1942.

Bodie State Historic Park, founded in 1876 and declared a ghost town in 1 An historic California gold-mining town located at an elevation of 8,375 feet south of Bridgeport is—like most of the ...

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 ...

I also suggest taking food, as there are no restaurants in town. Admission to the park and ghost town is $5, and I highly recommend visiting during the early fall, since Bodie closes down for the ...

"Dear Bodie... I'm sorry that I took this piece of metal from the town. I thought it was all a joke but it wasn't at all. Things are happening that are very hard to explain." From a letter to Bodie, ...

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 ...