Every Lake
NY · depth model
Otsego Lake
Cooperstown's Glimmerglass, the source of the Susquehanna.
The layers of this board — each depth is engraved on its step
- 28 ft · first step
- 56 ft
- 84 ft
- 112 ft
- 140 ft
- 168 ft · bottom
168 ftmaximum depth
6.4square miles of water
6depth layers cut
138roads engraved on the 12"
6towns named
1.5 lbthe 12" on the wall (≈ 9.6 lb at 30")
The lake
About Otsego Lake
Otsego Lake is a nine-mile glacial lake in central New York whose outlet at Cooperstown is the beginning of the Susquehanna River. It is 168 feet deep and cold enough to hold a native lake trout population; James Fenimore Cooper called it Glimmerglass in the Leatherstocking Tales.
Cooperstown at the south end holds the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore Art Museum and the Glimmerglass opera festival on the lake's west shore; Springfield at the north end is farmland and the Hyde Hall estate.
On the board
- 6 shore towns named, with a star on each
- 138 roads engraved around the shore, 3 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
Otsego 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.Turn it in your hands
Live 3D of the actual cut files — drag to orbit, pinch to zoom. Every road you see is engraved on the real thing.
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