Bodie Hills

The Bodie Hills are a low mountain range in Mono County, California, in the United States.[1] The Bodie Hills are between Bridgeport and the Nevada border, where they become the Bodie Mountains in Mineral County, Nevada. The Sierra Nevada lies to the west. The mining district and town of Bodie, California, is located in the Bodie Hills.

Bodie Hills
Highest point
Elevation2,871 m (9,419 ft)
Geography
Bodie Hills is located in California
Bodie Hills
Location of Bodie Hills in California[1]
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
DistrictMono County
Range coordinates38°15′20.704″N 119°5′24.528″W
Topo mapUSGS Dome Hill

Early Native American peoples of the Mono tribe and Northern Paiute people inhabited this locale and engaged in trade with distant coastal tribes such as the Chumash in Southern California.[2]

Bodie State Historic Park
Early winter in the Bodie Hills, 2017

The ghost town of Bodie is now located in Bodie State Historic Park. The preserved California mining district is also designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark. It became a California State Historic Park in 1962 and was opened to the public.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Bodie Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  2. Hogan, C. Michael. (2008) Morro Creek, The Megalithic Portal, ed. by A. Burnham
  3. Bodie State Historic Park. California Department of Parks and Recreation.


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