THE WAYBACK TOWN: There aren't too many places in California where it feels as if time as not passed, not even an iota. Oh, natural places, for sure: The ancient bristlecone pine forest in the Inyo ...

Ghost towns emerged during the 19th century as communities that had been built around mining camps, railroad hubs, and boomtowns fueled by gold rushes. These settlements popped seemingly overnight, ...

BEEN TALKING ABOUT GETTING AWAY? As in, away away? As in, one of the away-est areas you can find within the Golden State, but still a place that teems with terrific stories, amazing visuals, and lore ...

Boone Store and Warehouse was built in 1874 for Harvey Boone, a descendent of Daniel Boone. During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were ...

You’ll find the town of Bodie on a windswept, God forsaken, middle-of-nowhere, high-desert plateau in Eastern California. At the height of its gold mining heyday, some 8,500 people lived in this 19th ...

Every fall for the past eight years, my dad, brother and I have taken road trips up and down the Owens Valley along California’s Highway 395, discovering all of the history the region has to offer.

The first time Dennis Ariza visited the ghost town of Bodie in the Eastern Sierras, he got the impression the residents had been abducted by aliens. “I learned that when the gold mine closed families ...

Isolated in California’s desolate high desert east of the Sierra Nevada, the ghost town of Bodie still stands as a testament to those who endured the tough conditions of the frontier during the Gold ...

An historic California gold-mining town located at an elevation of 8,375 feet south of Bridgeport is—like most of the Eastern Sierra—blanketed in deep snow. Bodie State Historic Park, founded in 1876 ...

THE WILDER ROUTES: To say that every experience involving nature or a remote location has been overly documented and managed and gussied-up and wrapped in protective coating is not correct in the ...

BEEN TALKING ABOUT GETTING AWAY? As in, away away? As in, one of the away-est areas you can find within the Golden State, but still a place that teems with terrific stories, amazing visuals, and lore ...

You’ll find the town of Bodie on a windswept, God forsaken, middle-of-nowhere, high-desert plateau in Eastern California. At the height of its gold mining heyday, some 8,500 people lived in this 19th ...