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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Bridgeport

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Bridgeport, California

Updated August 5, 2022

Unusual Attractions in Bridgeport

Bridgeport, California

Bodie State Historic Park

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Bridgeport, California

Sinnamon Cut

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

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Mono City, California

Basalt Plug

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

12 miles from Bridgeport

Lee Vining, California

Black Point Fissures by Mono Lake

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

17 miles from Bridgeport

Hawthorne, Nevada

Aurora

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

18 miles from Bridgeport

Lee Vining, California

Mono Lake

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

20 miles from Bridgeport

Yerington, Nevada

Wovoka Wilderness

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

20 miles from Bridgeport

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