Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Bridgeport, CA

Bridgeport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that serves as the county seat of Mono County, in California's Eastern Sierra.

Mono County had just 13,195 residents in the 2020 census, making it one of California's least populous counties, and Mammoth Lakes is its only incorporated town — so little Bridgeport runs the county government.

The community was formerly known as Big Meadows, after the broad meadow valley it sits in, and its first post office opened in 1864.

Bridgeport became the county seat after the Aurora border dispute: Aurora, Nevada had been mistakenly treated as part of Mono County until the error was discovered, and the county government moved to Kingsley's Inn on the East Walker River at present-day Bridgeport.

The Mono County Courthouse in Bridgeport was built in 1880, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is described as one of the oldest courthouses still in active use in America.

Bridgeport sits at about 6,460 feet elevation in the Bridgeport Valley, ringed by the Sierra Nevada to the west, the Sweetwater Mountains to the north, and the Bodie Hills to the east.

The town stands at the junction of U.S. Route 395 and State Route 182, about 20 miles east of the U.S. Marine Corps' Mountain Warfare Training Center.

Bridgeport Reservoir, an impoundment on the East Walker River, forms the northwestern edge of the community.

The surrounding waters — Bridgeport Reservoir, Twin Lakes, Virginia Lakes, and the East and West Walker Rivers — are famous for rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout fishing, and the valley is home to one of California's largest mule deer herds.

Bridgeport is the gateway to Bodie, the famously well-preserved Gold Rush ghost town, and the area offers more than 500 miles of cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling trails in winter.