This California outpost may be abandoned, but it’s got plenty of spirit. Tucked high in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains sits a state park where a once-booming gold mining camp has been frozen in ...

A heavy snowstorm in 1859 killed the town’s founder and harsh winters continue to plague the California ghost town Bodie State Historic Park. The former gold-mining settlement, some 300 miles east of ...

Every morning, it seemed, another man would turn up dead on the dusty streets of Bodie. The “bad men from Bodie,” as newspapers in the 1800s called them, were notorious for their profanity, deception, ...

Citrus Heights resident Curtis Fry, whose son contracted hantavirus at Bodie State Historic Park, said the California Department of Parks and Recreation is putting employees at risk by failing to ...

CATCHING SOMETHING... from the corner of your eye while strolling through Bodie State Historic Park? It might be a crow preening atop a post, or perhaps a small dust devil doing a frenetic dance, or ...

If you’re like me, I’m sure you’ve seen the weather page with the small posting of the hottest and coldest spot in the state – and most of the time, the coldest spot is Bodie State Park. I’ve seen ...

The answer is elevation. Bodie State Historic Park is at an elevation of 8,379 feet and so it is a chilly location. On average, temperatures decline 5.4 degrees per thousand feet of height gain in ...

CLASSIC ROAD TRIPS, per movies and novels and documentaries and commercials and magazines, happen in one season and one season alone: summertime. Oh, there may be the occasional foray into fall, but ...