NY · depth model

Great Sacandaga Lake

A 1930 flood-control reservoir the size of a small county, with ten towns still underneath it.

12 inch$149Desk, bookshelf, hallway. The closing-gift size. · ≈ 3.1 lb 17 inch$249Over a sideboard or in a reading nook. · ≈ 6.2 lb 24 inch$399The over-the-mantel piece. Islands appear at this scale. · ≈ 12.4 lb 30 inch$599Statement wall. Two hangers, every town on the shore named. · ≈ 19.4 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

15 ft · first step
30 ft
45 ft
60 ft
74 ft
89 ft · bottom

89 ftmaximum depth

38.5square miles of water

6depth layers cut

1,337roads engraved on the 12"

24towns named

3.1 lbthe 12" on the wall (≈ 19.4 lb at 30")

The lake

About Great Sacandaga Lake

Great Sacandaga Lake was created in 1930 when the Conklingville Dam closed on the Sacandaga River, a flood-control project that flooded ten small communities and forced out about 1,100 people; two dozen cemeteries had to be moved first. It covers close to 42 square miles and runs some 29 miles long, up to 70 feet deep, northeast of Johnstown and Gloversville in the southern Adirondack foothills. Boating and bass fishing bring people now — a 46-pound northern pike, once a world record, came from it in 1940 — and the name changed from 'reservoir' to 'lake' in the 1960s to help sell it as a vacation spot.

On the board

24 shore towns named, with a star on each
1,337 roads engraved around the shore, 2 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

Great Sacandaga Lake 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.