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Bodie California Map

Explore Bodie, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bodie, California

How to Use This Bodie, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bodie, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bodie.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Bodie
State	California (CA)
County	Mono County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	38.21214
Longitude	-119.012087
Density	0.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	93517
Area Code	760
County Seat	Bridgeport

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About Bodie, California

Bodie is a locality in Mono County, California, United States. The population density is 0.1 people per km². Bodie is located at 38.2121°N, 119.0121°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93517.

Bodie persists as a skeletal monument of timber and rusted iron, caught in the high-altitude stillness of a landscape where the earth itself seems to hold its breath. It lies 72.4 miles southeast of South Lake Tahoe, CA (from South Lake Tahoe, CA: bearing 133°T), and is situated 30.1 miles southwest of Hawthorne. Bodie Creek winds through the sagebrush flats nearby, its presence a thin, persistent thread in a land defined by the stark, treeless expanse of Milk Ranch Canyon. To the west, the jagged, snow-dusted profile of the Sierra Nevada rises like a distant wall against the sky, while the alkaline shimmer of Mono Lake glints nine miles away, trapped in a basin that feels indifferent to the passage of human time. The air here carries a sharp, metallic clarity, often shivering with the wind that sweeps across the high desert, scouring the unpainted wood of abandoned dwellings until they turn the color of bleached bone.

Gold drew the restless to these hills, transforming a desolate outpost into a frenzied center of industry before the veins of quartz finally surrendered their wealth. Today, Bodie remains preserved within the Bodie Bowl Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a designation that ensures the silence of its streets is never broken by the clamor of modern settlement. The economy of the past—a frantic, dust-choked extraction of ore—has given way to the slow, deliberate work of decay, where the sunlight at dusk paints the weathered siding in shades of deep amber and charcoal. Visitors wander past silent stamp mills and storefronts that seem to wait for a return that will never come, sensing the quiet gravity of a place that long ago traded its vitality for a permanent, frozen place in the high desert light.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bodie Bowl Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — locality lies within
Carpenter Shop (Historic Ruins) — 0.0 mi, 264° W
Stone Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 0.0 mi, 087° E
Bodie Museum and Visitor Center (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 222° SW
Bodie Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 0.3 mi, 360° N · 17k acres
Mount Biedeman Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 0.9 mi, 215° SW · 13k acres
Atastra Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 2.6 mi, 352° N · 574 acres
Rough Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 2.9 mi, 328° NW · 899 acres
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 5.3 mi, 029° NE · 3.9M acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 6.0 mi, 090° E
Inyo National Forest (National Forest) — 7.8 mi, 166° S · 2.0M acres
Mono Basin National Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 7.8 mi, 166° S
Dogwood (Viewpoint) — 10.3 mi, 254° W
Little Bodie Monument (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 246° SW
Granite Mountain Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 13.3 mi, 146° SE · 34k acres
Avalanche of 1911 (Monument) — 14.0 mi, 216° SW
Hoover Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.8 mi, 215° SW · 128k acres
Hunewill Upper Sawmill (Monument) — 17.5 mi, 276° W
Upside-Down House (Attraction) — 18.5 mi, 198° S
South Tufa Area (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 183° S
Navy Beach (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 181° S
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 19.9 mi, 235° SW · 743k acres
Perched Boulder (Attraction) — 29.8 mi, 186° S
Dana Campfire Circle (Theatre) — 29.9 mi, 219° SW
Conness Campfire Circle (Theatre) — 30.3 mi, 219° SW
Aspen Glen Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 34.8 mi, 312° NW
Minaret Cinemas (Cinema) — 39.7 mi, 176° S
Mammoth Museum (Museum) — 39.9 mi, 176° S
Nature Center at Happy Isles (Museum) — 44.7 mi, 222° SW
Pinecrest Art Gallery (Gallery) — 53.4 mi, 269° W

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