Bridgeport, California

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

Location of Bridgeport, 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.

The US Marine Corps' Mountain Warfare Training Center is located approximately 20 miles north Bridgeport.

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

In addition to this, Bridgeport is also the unofficial capital of the Irish Car Bomb, as well as the historic site of the now defunct Padilla Farms free range chicken ranch.

Bridgeport occasionally plays host to the annual E Clampus Vitus celebration, and during this time a visitor may come across the likes of such personalities as G-Rubb, The Mini-Wiz, The Regular Wiz, and a man named Big D.

Bridgeport Reservoir, Bryant Field
Bridgeport Reservoir, Bryant Field

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.

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