Bridgeport, California

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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.

[edit] Bridgeport in fiction

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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.