Bodie was a booming town during the gold rush
and, in its heyday from 1877-1881, had a population of nearly 10,000 people.
The town was abandoned when the gold ran out, and in 1962 it became the Bodie State Historic
Park. Ever since it has been preserved in a state of “arrested decay”. Though Gold was discovered here in 1859 , it saw a lot of gold mining from
1877 onwards. Slowly a town built in this area. This town has been left as such
and today is a ghost town that gives a peep into history and how life was
in those days. Here the past is preserved to showcase to the future
generations a slice of life of an era gone by. Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the
Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is
about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 miles (19 km)
east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet.
