Bodie
Bodie is a ghost town in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,555 m. Excelsior Mountain stands 3,791 m to the southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Carpenter Shop, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 25 miles off.
ghost town in California, United States
What the record says
- Founded
- 1876
How to reach it
- 24.6 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Tioga Lake Overlook Info Site · 24 mi
- Disappearing Meadows · 27 mi
- Lembert Dome · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Silver Hill: 0.6 mi
- Sugarloaf: 1.7 mi
- Bodie Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Potato Peak: 4.3 mi
- Mount Biedeman: 5.1 mi
- Murphy Spring: 2.8 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 5.8 mi
- Warm Spring: 6.0 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 6.5 mi
- Coyote Spring: 7.5 mi
- Carpenter Shop: 0.0 mi
- Stone Ruins: 0.0 mi
- Bottle Works (Site): 0.1 mi
- Machinery: 0.2 mi
- Red Cloud Mining Equipment: 0.2 mi
- Aurora: 8.1 mi
- Dog Town: 10.5 mi
- Masonic: 11.7 mi
- Dunderberg Mill: 15.0 mi
- Sweetwater: 19.4 mi
- Bodie Museum and Visitor Center: 0.1 mi
- Old Mono County Jail: 12.1 mi
- Mono County Museum: 12.2 mi
- Mono Basin Historical Society: 18.4 mi
- Bodie State Historic Park: 0.2 mi
- Mono Lake Park: 15.3 mi
- Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area: 18.3 mi
- Gus Hess Community Park: 18.4 mi
- Travertine Hot Spring: 10.7 mi
- Upside-Down House: 18.5 mi
- South Tufa Area: 18.6 mi
- Navy Beach: 18.8 mi
- Warm Springs: 14.0 mi
- Booker Hot Spring: 19.3 mi
- Walker River Hot Spring: 19.3 mi
- Fales Hot Spring: 23.1 mi
- Bodie Bluff: 0.8 mi
- Locomotive Point: 9.1 mi
- Dore Cliff: 20.5 mi
- Danburg Beach: 15.2 mi
- Navy Beach: 18.7 mi
- The Elbow: 15.2 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 20.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Bodie. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Mountain | SW 231° | 3,791 m | 20.5 mi |
| Dunderberg Peak | SW 234° | 3,774 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Warren | SW 217° | 3,758 m | 19.2 mi |
| Twin Peaks | WSW 245° | 3,756 m | 20.8 mi |
| Twin Peaks-East Peak | WSW 244° | 3,731 m | 20.6 mi |
| Virginia Peak | WSW 242° | 3,657 m | 21.3 mi |
| Black Mountain | SW 230° | 3,584 m | 18.8 mi |
| Camiaca Peak | WSW 238° | 3,574 m | 20.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:59 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 25 | 29 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 57 | 56 | 50 | 40 | 31 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodie California ST Historic P, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Day trips start here
- Mono Lake · 14 mi
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