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Bodie's a great place to explore, but I don't know if you can get in there during the winter. It's a good road, but not plowed.
The Bodie road works a lot like the Whitney Portal Road. It is marked closed most of the winter at a gate a few hundred yards from the turnoff from 395. There is a 30' wide area to pull around the gate. If there is a Caltrans truck blocking the pull-around, they are actually working on the road.
There is also a dirt road (Cottonwood Canyon) that approaches Bodie from the south from the road across the north side of Mono Lake. Last April when Caltrans was working on the paved road I drove the Cottonwood Canyon road, also closed as far as the hill above Bodie. The last stretch was a rutted hill covered with slush and mud so I walked the last bit.
If you approach the paved road gate you find this sign:
Dale B. Dalrymple
