Barrel Springs Back Country Byway
Posted by Karen on 31-Aug-2009
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This morning I woke up to a nice sunrise at Stough Reservoir, packed up the SUV and then headed to Cedarville to start touring the Barrel Springs Back Country Byway. I explore all 6 blocks of the town and then stop in at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office to make sure the back country road is intact and good for touring. I’m glad I stopped in, they gave me a self-guiding tour pamphlet (attached) and recommended that I take the tour in the opposite direction of what the pamphlet recommends. Made sure I was prepared, as there are no services available on this middle-of-nowhere road, and headed out north. On the California side, the road is paved and travels next to Upper Lake, which is a dry lake most of the year. I explored the tiny towns of Lake City and took a side trip up to Fandango Pass. Fort Bidwell was not as I’d expected. I was expecting a “historical fort” and it isn’t; nothing remains of the fort today and it’s a small town with a few old buildings, but no sign of a military fort. After Fort Bidwell, the road heads east and becomes a graded dirt road and crosses over in to the pretty high desert of Nevada. It was a very nice tour and I think I’ll check out some of the other byways they have listed on the National Scenic Byways website.
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Loved it all…but especially those petroglyphs!
Mosquito Lake is very pretty, too, but I don’t think there are many mosquitoes hanging out there!
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Karen Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I really like petroglyphs too; I must to walk over lava rocks in 100 degree weather just to see them.
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