Abandoned Northern California
Talk about abandoned! On a rainy Valentine’s Day 2019 we checked Bodie State Historic Park’s web page and were greeted to this:
The public phone line is currently unavailable
Highway 270 is currently closed due to snow.
Cottonwood Canyon Road is also closed due to snow.
Bodie Road to Aurora is currently impassable.
Motorists should expect the worst conditions and be prepared when traveling in areas subject to hazardous conditions.
Abandoned Northern California
Joanna Kalafatis | Arcadia Publishing
Book Review by Craig MacDonald
Joanna Kalafatis likes performing as an actress under the bright lights of Hollywood but she’s equally as happy heading off into California’s dark and lonely back country, in search of unique abandoned buildings to photograph and write about.
Readers will learn about…
- J’s Amusement Park with a rollercoaster, racetrack and House of Horrors in Guerneville
- Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain Ghost Town of Bodie
- Wingo, Sonoma’s Ghost Town
- Marconi Hotel on the coast
- Author Jack London’s Wolf House
- Alameda Naval Base
- Nevada County Hospita
- Donner Pass tunnels
- Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands
