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Destination 4x4
The journey is the destination. This site is about history, camping, exploring and utilizing your 4x4 for exploration. It's not just a jeep thing. We strive to help our members discover new adventures, locations and destinations.
The firehouse in Bodie stands as a poignant symbol of the town's efforts to combat these threats, reflecting both the ambition of its heyday and the decline that followed.![]()
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The firehouse in Bodie is a modest wooden structure with a belfry, was likely constructed in the late 1870s or early 1880s.
The DeChambeau Hotel is a historic brick building located in Bodie, California, a once-thriving gold-mining boomtown that has since become one of the most well-preserved ghost towns in the United States. Situated on Main Street in the heart of Bodie State Historic Park, the hotel stands as an iconic symbol of the town’s frontier past. Bodie itself, nestled in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains at an elevation of about 8,375 feet, boomed in the late 1870s and early 1880s with a population peaking around 10,000, fueled by gold discoveries.![]()
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DeChambeau Hotel - Bodie California
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The DeChambeau Hotel is a historic brick building located in Bodie, California, a once-thriving gold-mining boomtown.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Building, also known as the I.O.O.F. Hall, is a prominent wooden structure located on Main Street in Bodie, California, a preserved ghost town in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. Bodie, founded as a gold-mining camp in 1859 and booming in the late 1870s with a population of up to 10,000, is now Bodie State Historic Park, maintained in a state of “arrested decay” by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.![]()
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The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Building is a prominent wooden structure located on Main Street in Bodie,
The so-called “Battle” of Wingate Pass, which occurred on February 26, 1906, in the rugged terrain of Death Valley, California, was not a genuine conflict but a staged hoax orchestrated by the infamous con artist Walter Edward Perry Scott, better known as “Death Valley Scotty.”![]()
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Walter Scott known as Death Valley Scotty stages the Battle of Wingate pass in yet another attempt to con investors.
In the sun-drenched heart of Arches National Park, where the desert’s pulse beats in shades of fire and stone, the North and South Window arches stand as twin sentinels of time, their majestic forms framing the infinite.![]()
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The Windows section of Arches National Park is a popular destination due to the number of arches in close proximity to each other.