NJ · depth model

Lake Hopatcong

New Jersey's largest lake, four square miles in the Highlands an hour from Manhattan.

12 inch$149Desk, bookshelf, hallway. The closing-gift size. · ≈ 2.0 lb 17 inch$249Over a sideboard or in a reading nook. · ≈ 4.0 lb 24 inch$399The over-the-mantel piece. Islands appear at this scale. · ≈ 7.9 lb 30 inch$599Statement wall. Two hangers, every town on the shore named. · ≈ 12.3 lb

Make it yours family name · a line of text · a star on your place

Family name on the title block A line under it Title block preview

Your place — a star and a name on the board

Add a laser-cut desk stand (12" and 17" only) +$29

Made to order in Waterford, PA. Ships in 7–10 days, free in the lower 48. Birch, 5 mm per layer, keyhole hanger built in. By ordering you agree to our terms — decorative art, not a navigational chart.

The layers of this board — each depth is engraved on its step

10 ft · first step
19 ft
29 ft
39 ft
48 ft
58 ft · bottom

58 ftmaximum depth

3.8square miles of water

6depth layers cut

978roads engraved on the 12"

20towns named

2.0 lbthe 12" on the wall (≈ 12.3 lb at 30")

The lake

About Lake Hopatcong

Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, about 2,500 acres with 45 miles of shoreline and depths to 58 feet, raised to its present size in the 1830s as a feeder for the Morris Canal. The name is Lenape; the canal's inclined planes hauled boats over the hills to the west.

Hopatcong, Jefferson, Mount Arlington and Roxbury share the shore; in the early 1900s it was a full-scale resort with hotels, steamboats, and Bertrand Island's amusement park, and the Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club still races on it.

On the board

20 shore towns named, with a star on each
978 roads engraved around the shore, 1 of them labeled
6 depth layers, each step engraved with its depth in feet
Compass rose, title block with coordinates, max depth and area; keyhole hanger on the back

Why we cut this one

Lake Hopatcong is one of the lakes people ask us for by name — the kind of shoreline where the house has a name and the dock has a history. This board is cut from the same depth grid the configurator uses for all 104,419 lakes, so the shape is the real one.