For many, it was a spring to rejoice, the region having endured a twenty-year drought. Water was flowing everywhere. Lakes and reservoirs were being restored to their former glory. This was especially true in the case of Honey Lake that went dry in 1919. It should be noted when the lake is full, it takes about two drought years on the average for the lake to go dry. Of course, all that water in Honey Lake made for an excellent setting to go boating. In April 1938, John Berglund, Howard Thornhill, Kenneth Doyle and Leon Millsap spent the day traversing lake in an outboard motor boat owned by Berglund and Thornhill. However, the former glory days on boating on Honey Lake never returned. With improvements to the automobile and roads, made mountain lakes more accessible, thus more preferable than the shallow Honey Lake.