Bridgeport, California

Encyclopedia : B : BR : BRI : Bridgeport, California

---

Bridgeport, California is the county seat of Mono County, California.

Bridgeport is located at [38°15′21″N, 119°13′49″W] (38.25583, -119.23028), at the intersection of highways US 395 and California 182.

Visitors to Bridgeport often take advantage of one of California's best-kept natural hot springs, the Travertine Hot Springs, in the hills to the east of the town.

Bridgeport is also notable for its proximity to the well-preserved ghost town of Bodie.

Bridgeport in fiction

Bridgeport is the setting of the 1947 film Out of the Past; several sequences were filmed on location in the town.

Bridgeport plays a small role in the novel The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac; it is the place from where the main characters Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley start their climb to the nearby Matterhorn Peak.

See also

• Lee Vining
• Mammoth Lakes

External links

• [Photographic virtual tour of Bridgeport.]
• [link]

 

---

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Search Titles

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

?