pictures and move to the next town with an active gold mine,” he writes in his recently published photo essay book, “Bodie: A Ghost Town.” “They would take only what they could carry.

It seems appropriate that a building in a ghost town should ... am there in early October. Gold was discovered in the area in 1859 by W. S. Bodey (later mysteriously changed to Bodie).

So I was excited to be able to explore a real-life, Wild West town at Bodie State Historic Park . Walking around this former gold mining town, now nicknamed Bodie Ghost Town, put it into ...

Time stands still in Bodie, where dust coats pool tables mid game and plates sit ready for meals that never came. This ghost ...

It is a bona fide ghost town. The only people who live here are the state park rangers. Bodie State Historic Park ... I only took pictures. But as I was snapping photos of an old barn, I nearly ...

When Goldfield, Arizona, was established in the early 1890s ... to Goldfield ghost town can enjoy simulated gun fights, ghost tours, and trips on a narrow gauge railroad train. Bodie, The Well ...

Admission to the park and ghost town is $5, and I highly recommend visiting during the early fall, since Bodie closes down for the winter.

No, I get a sense of some lingering . . . thing here." Back in Bodie, there's one more important stop in the hunt for ghosts in ghost towns: the morgue. The baby coffins had windows so a mother ...

Bodie is a ghost town preserved in a state of “arrested decay.” At its peak, this Wild West boomtown had a population of 10,000 people. Mining activities started to decline during the early ...

Tucked away in these hills, less than 100 miles northeast of Yosemite National Park, is the “official” Gold Rush Ghost Town of California: Bodie. I’ve seen my fair share of historical ruins ...

Bowen resurrected a bill that sought to confer the title of official California Ghost Town on Bodie, a once-bustling Mono County town now in ruins. The idea was suggested by students from Lee ...

No injuries have been reported. “Everything is still standing, but there is some damage” in Bodie, one of the best preserved ghost towns in America, said Matthew Green, chief ranger for the ...