Bodie State Historic Park

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. 

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, 12 mi east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet. Bodie became a boomtown in 1876 after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 5,000–7,000.

Opening hours

Summer: 9 AM to 6 PM
Winter: 9 AM-4 PM