Mammoth Lakes and Bodie, CA

After a drive around Lake Mary in the Mammoth Lakes area.......

We made the long treck to see the abandoned gold mining town turned historical state park, Bodie, CA.

Kind of an interesting little place. Once boasted 10,000 residents, in 1879, but that didn't last long. Mining for precious metals continued until WWII, but the town had gone down significant by then. It was totally abandoned in 1974.

...and many items were simply...abandoned....it is littered with old metal and glass. You can see items left inside some of the buildings with decades of dust....

Being an official state park, it did have a store/museum with a real life prospector turned park ranger...

I guess it is one of those places you visit to see a little of our American history.....