Bridgeport & Bodie
Northern Eastern Sierra · near Bridgeport · Eastern Sierra
Gravel & Bikepacking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Best season
- Late spring–fall (high; snowbound in winter)
What is here
- Terrain
- mountain
- Amenities
- Bodie ghost town (state park) · High Bridgeport Valley · Sawtooth Ridge scenery · Backcountry camping & hot springs
- Best for
- High-country ranch gravel to a ghost town
- Features
- Ride to Bodie ghost town · High sagebrush ranch country · Dramatic Sawtooth Ridge · Remote hot springs nearby
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- High, cold, exposed terrain · Rough, remote roads · Scarce water & services · Sudden weather
- Good for a first timer
- No
Gravel & Bikepacking detail
- Ride types
- day-gravel · adventure
- Surface
- rough
- Remoteness
- 3
- Riding
- High sagebrush-and-ranch riding to a perfectly preserved gold-rush ghost town — rough roads across the Bridgeport Valley beneath the Sawtooth Ridge
- Terrain note
- 6,000–8,400 ft high valley; rough remote roads; cold, exposed, dry
- Camping
- Yes
- Intl tip
- Tiny ranching town in a high sagebrush valley beneath the Sawtooth Ridge — the marquee ride climbs rough dirt to Bodie, the best-preserved gold-rush ghost town in the West (8,400 ft, in 'arrested decay'). High, open, rugged riding across ranch land under huge skies. Remote: cold, exposed, dry, scarce water/services, short season. Backcountry camping and Eastern Sierra hot springs nearby. A wild, story-rich frontier ride.
- Trip lengths
- day
The guide
Bridgeport, a tiny ranching town in a high sagebrush valley beneath the jagged Sawtooth Ridge, anchors a remote, atmospheric co…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Bridgeport & Bodie — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.26, -119.23