Lake Frome Lake

Website: https://www.parksaustralia.gov.au/lake-frome

Lake Frome is an endorheic salt lake in the remote arid interior of South Australia. It forms a broad, flat salt pan that is typically dry for long periods and fills episodically after significant rainfall.

The surface is a wide, level salt crust and the lake is noted for its stark, open character rather than developed visitor facilities; it is visited mainly by those undertaking remote outback travel. Wildlife is sparse and the surrounding terrain is arid pastoral and conservation land.

The lake is a natural landform in South Australia’s interior and has long been part of the region’s arid landscape; it has not supported permanent settlement and has been managed as remote pastoral and conservation country.

Lake Frome sits in eastern South Australia in a sparsely populated, arid zone; access is by unsealed outback tracks and it lies within a large, remote pastoral and conservation region.

Drive: Lake Frome sits hundreds of kilometres from Adelaide. Access is via unsealed outback tracks off the Stuart and Barrier Highways; a high-clearance 4x4 is essential. Visitors should obtain maps and permits from South Australia National Parks before travelling.

• If attempting to visit Lake Frome, obtain permits and up-to-date track information from South Australia National Parks-this is remote desert country.
• Use a high-clearance 4x4 and carry extra water and a satellite communication device; mobile coverage is unreliable.
• Respect cultural restrictions-some parts of the lake lie within Indigenous protected areas.