Bodie State Historic Park - CA

I read about Bodie State Historic Park in Sunset Magazine recently and in June, I found myself in California.  The Park is about 60 miles north of Mammoth Lakes.  You reach it on a well traveled, but bumpy dirt road.  (Note: take rte 270, not rte 167/Cottonwood Canyon Road.)  Bodie was a booming mining town in the late 1800, today, it is a ghost town, managed by the state and left to naturally decay.

Among rolling hills, with snowcapped mountain peaks in the background, Bodie is at about 8400' elevation.  You can wander among the buildings, peer in windows, and walk into other buildings that are in better shape.  

We arrived in time to take a tour of the the Standard Mill given by a park ranger, which gave us an up close view of the Mill buildings.

The scenery is lovely and the buildings are interesting and beautiful in their decay.  This place is pretty far from anywhere, but a great stop on a roadtrip.