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Bodie
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Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 mi east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet. As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark. Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962, and receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Starting in 2012, Bodie is administered by the Bodie Foundation, which uses the tagline Protecting Bodie’s Future by Preserving Its Past.
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Bodie is a spooky place. The town still exists, and it looks as though it was suddenly abandoned, although that was not the case. Rangers and other parties have staged it to look that way as an attraction to visitors. There are people actually still living in Bodie. Most of the Rangers and caretakers all have homes there.
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