Bridgeport, California

Mono County

Bridgeport is an unincorporated settlement and seat of the administration of Mono County in the U.S. state of California. The town is located 1,970 meters east of the Sierra Nevada on U.S. Highway U.S. 395 and had the prior census in 2010, 575 inhabitants.

Bridgeport is located on the western edge of the Great Basin on the eastern arm of the Walker River, which is dammed here since 1923 Bridgeport Reservoir. The town lives mainly from tourism, in particular the fishing on the Walker River and other streams and lakes. Another tourist attraction is the nearby ghost town of Bodie.

In Bridgeport is the Eastern Sierra Academy, a small private preparatory school with only 25 students who got multiple certifies outstanding quality from high school ranking by the magazine Newsweek.