Bodie State Historic Park

Bodie State Historic Park Official California State Parks Facebook account for Bodie State Historic Park. Bodie State Historic Park is the largest unrestored Ghost Town in the country.
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Over 200 structures remain from its heyday in the late 1870s.

06/02/2026

This morning at sunrise, our trail camera captured a herd of mule deer walking down into town.

Video shows several mule deer making their way down to the green grass and water at Bodie Creek

05/31/2026

"What's in that building?" Is a question we get sometimes when we are concluding our stamp mill tour.

The top floor has the remnants of an electrician's shop/storage shed. Dating to the k**b and tube wiring days -- there's an assortment of interesting spare parts and new old stock that never got used in the mill's days!

The lightning arresters are especially interesting, and you can imagine why they would need them in a big metal building on top of a mountain!

05/27/2026

Baby animal season continues at Bodie!

If you are in the park later in the day you might get lucky enough to see the family of Long-Tailed Weasels that's currently hunting in the brush on the west end of town around the church and the DV Cain house.

These weasels are incredible hunters; they can take down prey bigger than then themselves. They are like pocket sized panthers!

The families stay together the first summer, before the young ones move on to start their own lives and families.

Even cooler? They turn white in the winter so they can operate in the snow! This is known as an ermine.

05/26/2026

What are those cute little guys running around town this week?

Belding's Ground Squirrel pups leaving their nests to forage for the first time!

They come out of their nests for the first time when they are about a month old. At first, they stay close to home and safety, before starting to forage further from the burrow.

Female ground squirrels stay together in communities, but the baby males will eventually go off on their own.

05/25/2026

It's tiny wildflower season in the Bodie Hills!

Do we have any botanists in the comments who can help identify these lovely little friends?

Here's our best guesses as to what these flowers are!

0:00 Aster

00:03: Phlox

0:06: Buckwheat

0:18 Cryptantha

0:24 Fremont’s phacelia

0:26: Larkspur

0:32 Lupine

0:33 Sagebrush bluebell

0:40 monkeyflower

0:47 Phacelia

California State Parks is honoring Memorial Day with free admission Monday for veterans, active duty, and reserve member...
05/24/2026

California State Parks is honoring Memorial Day with free admission Monday for veterans, active duty, and reserve members.

Pictured is Bodie resident Les Bell who left Bodie to serve in the Navy in World War II.

World War II spelled the end for Bodie. Order L-208, issued in 1942, banned mining in Bodie until the order was lifted in 1945. Intended to a be a temporary measure to focus America's industrial efforts on the war, Bodie never recovered.

Bodie was already on the path to tourist attraction and ghost town before the war, with Ella Cain developing the Bodie museum in the early 1940s. Shutting down the mines for the war was the push that drove most remaining residents out for good.

20 years later, Bodie became a California State Park.

Photo: Courtesy Bell Family.

05/23/2026

Stressed out by holiday plans and travels? Take a deep breath and follow the clouds and the shadows in a relaxing timelapse of our little mountain town.

Mother and baby badgers spotted just outside of Bodie!
05/15/2026

Mother and baby badgers spotted just outside of Bodie!

05/07/2026

It's swallow season in Bodie!

Bodie has been voted "Best California State Park for Learning About History" !
05/05/2026

Bodie has been voted "Best California State Park for Learning About History" !

Address

Bodie State Historic Park, Highway 270
Bodie, CA
93517

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 6pm

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+17606165040

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