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Bodie, California

Bodie
Ghost town
Skyline of Bodie
Bodie is located in California
Bodie
Bodie
Bodie is located in the US
Bodie
Bodie
Coordinates: 38°12′44″N 119°00′44″W / 38.21222°N 119.01222°W / 38.21222; -119.01222Coordinates: 38°12′44″N 119°00′44″W / 38.21222°N 119.01222°W / 38.21222; -119.01222
Country United States
State California
County Mono
Founded 1876
Elevation 8,379 ft (2,554 m)
Population (2015)
 • Total 0
Time zone Pacific (UTC−8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC−7)
ZIP code 93517
Area codes 442/760
Website Bodie State Historic Park
Bodie Historic District
Bodie September 2016 panorama 2.jpg
Overview of Bodie from the eastern hills
Location California
Nearest city Bridgeport, California
Architectural style Various; Southwestern U.S. frontier-style, late-19th to early-20th century.
NRHP Reference # 66000213
CHISL # 341
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1966
Designated NHLD July 4, 1961

Bodie (/ˈbd/ BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet (2554 m). As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark.

Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962, and receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Since 2012, Bodie has been administered by the Bodie Foundation, which uses the tagline Protecting Bodie's Future by Preserving Its Past.

Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. Bodey perished in a blizzard the following November while making a supply trip to Monoville (near present-day Mono City, California), never getting to see the rise of the town that was named after him. According to area pioneer Judge J. G. McClinton, the district's name was changed from "Bodey," "Body," and a few other phonetic variations, to "Bodie," after a painter in the nearby boomtown of Aurora, lettered a sign "Bodie Stables".


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