What is So Interesting About Clark Dry Lake?

By
Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Gold DRE #00697006

When I spotted this lake in the distance, I insisted we drive as close as we could get. Good thing we had rented a Buick Enclave, which pretty much goes anywhere. My husband seemed a bit uncomfortable driving into the washes but then he has never owned a jeep nor participated in four-wheeling like I have.

There is so much to see and do on a dry lake bed. For starters, the bed is not always totally dry. When there is a lot of rain, you can spot fairy shrimp at Clark Dry Lake. There is also vegetation such as creosote bushes, driftwood here and there and every so often an ocotillo, which is my new favorite desert plant. Ants galore. At one point, Clark Dry Lake was used by the military during World War II as a bombing range.

You can read more and see a bunch more photos in my personal blog today at this link: Photos of Clark Dry Lake at Anza Borrego Desert.

Posted by

elizabeth weintraub

 

 

Weintraub and Wallace Realtors

 

 

Elizabeth Weintraub reviews

 

 

 

Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

Photo: Unless otherwise noted in this blog, the photo is copyrighted by Big Stock Photo and used with permission.The views expressed herein are Weintraub's personal views and do not reflect the views of RE/MAX Gold. Disclaimer: If this post contains a listing, information is deemed reliable as of the date it was written. After that date, the listing may be sold, listed by another brokerage, canceled, pending or taken temporarily off the market, and the price could change without notice; it could blow up, explode or vanish. To find out the present status of any listing, please go to elizabethweintraub.com.

close

This entry hasn't been re-blogged:

Re-Blogged By Re-Blogged At
Topic:
Just for Fun
Location:
California San Diego County Borrego Springs
Groups:
ActiveRain Rockstars
Everything California
Lyon Realtors
Northern California Real Estate Professionals
Travelers In The Rain
Tags:
clark dry lake
dry lake bed anza borrego
anza borrego desert clark dry lake
things to see in anza borrego desert state park

Spam prevention
Submit
Show All Comments
Rainmaker
2,917,628
Myrl Jeffcoat
GreatWest Realty - Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Real Estate Agent

I have to say it.  That landscape reminds me of my own skin at the end of winter!

Mar 24, 2019 12:22 PM #1
Ambassador
4,524,782
Kathy Streib
Room Service Home Staging - Delray Beach, FL
Home Stager - Palm Beach County,FL -561-914-6224

Elizabeth- how interesting!!!!! Can you drive all over the dry lake or do you have to follow a certain trail???

Mar 24, 2019 04:27 PM #2
Rainmaker
2,192,392
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Realtor Top 1%
RE/MAX Gold - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Myrl Jeffcoat You and me both, Myrl. I am required to bathe myself in dry skin lotion when I am in Sacramento. Even my scalp gets dry.

Mar 24, 2019 04:44 PM #3
Rainmaker
2,192,392
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Realtor Top 1%
RE/MAX Gold - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Kathy Streib Most people walk the whole way but we drove most of it. You can drive almost to the lake bed if you're willing to navigate the washes and cross back and forth to the original trail.

Mar 24, 2019 04:45 PM #4
Rainmaker
1,951,137
Lottie Kendall
Compass - San Francisco, CA
Helping make your real estate dreams a reality

I'm surprised it's dry, Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Real Estate Agent, Top 1% of Lyon Agents - I read a week or so ago about a 10-mile long lake that formed in Death Valley of all places because of the tremendous rains of late. 

Remember the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and the tremendous speeds autos could go? I'm picturing you egging on your husband at this lake!!

Mar 24, 2019 08:01 PM #5
Ambassador
5,073,710
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, Keller Williams Fox Cities - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Hi Elizabeth,  Thanks for sharing this great picture and story.  I don't recall ever seeing a dry lake bed like this.

Mar 24, 2019 08:14 PM #6
Rainmaker
2,221,057
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
New Hampshire Home Stager

This is all new to me...I had never heard of a dry lake before. Very interesting and quite pretty!

Mar 25, 2019 06:25 PM #7
Rainmaker
2,192,392
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Realtor Top 1%
RE/MAX Gold - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Lottie Kendall We were driving very slowly through the washes, careful not to disturb any native vegetation, so no egging on, no race-car driving.

Mar 25, 2019 06:31 PM #8
Rainmaker
3,531,844
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Elizabeth, I have never been inspired to drive on a dry lake nor on a completely frozen over one on the East Coast, Endre

Mar 25, 2019 11:49 PM #9
Rainmaker
2,192,392
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Realtor Top 1%
RE/MAX Gold - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Endre Barath, Jr. For the record, I don't know why people think we are driving on the lake, we are not driving on the lake bed. LOL. That would be foolish and a good way to get stuck, not to mention, destroy the environment.

Mar 26, 2019 08:29 AM #10
Show All Comments
Back to Top

What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry?

Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam?

Rainmaker
2,192,392

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Realtor Top 1%

Put 40 years of experience to work for you
How much is my home worth?
*
*
*
*
Submit

Additional Information