Stunning, beautiful, visit! (we did last year)
Bridgeport is one of those California places Californians don’t think about much. If you drew a line due east from Petaluma, across the valleys and the mountains, you’d hit Bridgeport, about 115 miles south of Reno and 90 miles north of Bishop.
It’s as pretty as a postcard, nestled in a wide valley with the Sawtooth range of the Sierra Nevada to the west. The highest peak is the 12,264-foot Matterhorn, named for the Swiss mountain.
Highway 395 is the town’s main street, and it runs past old white houses, and a modest business district surrounding the 123-year-old Mono County Courthouse, plunked like a Victorian wedding cake in the middle of town. There is even a cannon on the lawn. Carl Nolte, SF Chronicle.