BLM Honey Lake Dispersed Area

Honey Lake spreads across a vast high desert basin with dispersed sites scattered along the shoreline and nearby ridges. The lake itself is seasonal — sometimes a shallow expanse of water, other times just cracked mud flats depending on snowpack and rainfall. Sites offer expansive views across the basin to the Sierra Nevada peaks, with minimal vegetation providing natural windbreaks. Popular with hunters, stargazers, and anyone seeking serious solitude.

Access roads are rough dirt tracks that turn to gumbo when wet — avoid during or immediately after storms. No facilities whatsoever, and the nearest services are 30+ miles away in Susanville. Spring can bring decent wildflower displays, but summer heat is brutal and winter brings snow. Cell service is non-existent.

Alkali flats camping for the truly remote