Every Lake
Edinboro Lake
A glacial kettle lake with a college town on its shore — proof that the small lakes are the ones people love hardest.
- 8 ft · shore
- 16 ft
- 23 ft
- 31 ft
- 39 ft · bottom
About Edinboro Lake
Edinboro Lake is a kettle: a hollow left by a block of ice that broke off the retreating glacier and melted in place some twelve thousand years ago. At 282 acres and 39 feet deep it is a modest piece of water by any measure, which is precisely why nobody else makes a map of it.
The borough at its south end was settled by Scots and named for the capital they left behind. In 1857 it opened an academy that became the Edinboro State Normal School, then Edinboro University, and the lake has been the town's front yard ever since — the Lakeside boathouse, the Edinboro Lake Resort at the north end, the winter ice, Lullabye Drive's cottages on the west shore.
Conneauttee Creek feeds it and leaves it over a small dam to join French Creek. Ask anyone who grew up here: the map of their childhood is this outline.
- Lakeside Drive, Lullabye Drive, Route 6N, Erie Street and every cottage lane
- Five depth layers in a lake most maps show as a flat blue blob
- The boathouse shore and the resort end
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.
