Bodie Hills
low mountain range in Mono County
The Bodie Hills is a low mountain range in Mono County, California, in the United States. The highest peak is Potato Peak at an altitude of 10,220 ft (3,115 m). The Bodie Hills are between Bridgeport and the Nevada border, where they become the Bodie Mountains in Mineral County, Nevada. The Sierra Nevada lies to the west. The mining district and town of Bodie, California, is located in the Bodie Hills.
Early Native American peoples of the Mono tribe and Northern Paiute people inhabited this locale and engaged in trade with distant coastal tribes such as the Chumash in Southern California.
Bodie State Historic Park
The ghost town of Bodie is now located in Bodie State Historic Park. The preserved California mining district is also designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark. It became a California State Historic Park in 1962 and was opened to the public.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bodie Hills” is low mountain range in Mono County. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bodie, Hills and mountain, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4936562. The Library of Congress control number is sh2015000424. Authority coordinates are 38.256, -119.090. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.
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