10/22/97

Bodie, Yosemite/Gold Country's most historic ghost town, has more than doubled in size. California's Department of Parks & Recreation has acquired an additional 520 acres that, until now, had been considered for open-pit gold mining.

Preservationists, attuned to the park's "arrested deterioration" status, did not want the current remains corrupted by an adjacent "new" project.

The state parks department acquired the additional land in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the American Land Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservancy Board and the Department of Transportation.

Bodie is 13 miles east of Highway 395 on Highway 270 (6 miles north of Bridgeport and 20 minutes north of Mono Lake). Yosemite National Park visitors utilizing the Highway 120 entrance to Yosemite form the east should seriously consider visits to both Bodie & Mono Lake.

FYI: Highway 270 is open only sporadically in the winter and is not paved for the final 3 miles to Bodie.

For more information on Bodie (including photos), please click here.