A Lake That Only Answers to You
Every fisherman has stood at a public ramp on opening weekend and done the math on how many boats one lake can hold. The answer out here is one, and it's yours. Renner Lake is a 9.6-acre pocket of water in the high desert of southern Oregon, and this parcel owns a piece of its shore.
Picture nearly sixteen acres down to the water, a tent or a wall tent set back from the shore, a canoe pulled up on your own bank, and a season of fishing where the only wake is the one you made. Lake County allows livestock and farm buildings on this ground outright, so a horse and a pole barn are on the table long before a house is (and the horse doesn't need a road).
You're about twenty miles from Lakeview, which bills itself as the tallest town in Oregon at 4,800 feet, and it's the nearest place for groceries, gas, and a hot meal. Goose Lake straddles the California line a few miles south, and the whole county has more antelope than people.
Here's what you need to know: there is no road to this parcel. The way in is a four-wheel drive across unmaintained ground that turns to ruts after rain, and the low ground near the lake is mapped floodplain (which is the same reason nobody has built a subdivision on it).
Most lakes belong to everybody, which means they belong to whoever got there first. This one belongs to whoever owns the ground. That could be you.