Lobdell Lake — Attraction in Yerington

The road to the lake is the adventure. It's over 10 miles from 395, most of it is graded dirt and gravel, which is doable by anything higher than a passenger car. We did see passenger cars on the road but not sure how far they went, you will definitely scrape at some point! You have to cross several streams, most of which sit in a depression with rocks, so if you don't have decent clearance, you will bottom out. Absolutely gorgeous in fall, there were actually a surprising number of other people on the roads. Dispersed camping is allowed here, so you will also see a decent number of campers/overlanders. The lake is more like a retention pond, not the most amazing place, but again, it's the road in that's...

Drove up there with my wife over 25 years ago. Lake was full and the DFG planted artic grayling in the lake. I didn't catch any grayling but the trout were spawning up stream out of the lake. It was quite a sight to see. I heard the Earthen dam broke some years ago. I don't think the DFG will be planting grayling in the lake. Saw a few bears and a herd of about 15 deer on the way up there. Great...

Lobdell Lake was created as a reservoir east of the 395 near the Sonora Pass junction. The road to the lake is dirt and not too rough although you need to ford several streams which is not bad in the fall. The lake itself is so low, perhaps one eighth of what it should be, very sad! Too small now to fish with float tubes but dishing off the shore was ok. Lots of algae with it...