Dry Lagoon Access provides a day-use area with parking and picnic facilities for accessing the lagoon and California Coastal Trail in Humboldt Lagoons State Park.

The site offers beach and sand spit access suitable for low-tide exploration, though the trail to Stone Lagoon floods seasonally and is typically passable only mid-July through November.

Kayaking is not permitted on Dry Lagoon itself (which is a wetland marsh rather than open water), but paddlers can access nearby Stone Lagoon and Freshwater Lagoon from other park locations.