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Hubbles Lake

Parkland County, Alberta, Canada

Also known as Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Parkland County, Edmonton

This lake is barely half a square kilometre and it goes down thirty metres.

Hubbles is a pothole lake in Parkland County, west of Edmonton, with four separate holes in it reaching 25 to 30 metres. That makes it one of the deepest lakes in Alberta, which is not what anyone expects from a body of water this small. Depth is why the water stays clear. Algae counts run low compared with neighbouring lakes, and divers come out from the city to use it.

It has no inflow and no outflow. The basin fills from groundwater and from whatever drains off the land immediately around it, and nothing runs out the other end.

The name is probably Hubbel, spelled differently. Alberta's geographic names records point to either Wesley or Roy Hubbel, who homesteaded here in the early 1900s, one of whom started a summer resort on the lake. Why the spelling changed is not recorded.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Walnut
Colour: Ocean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: June 2026

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

Detail of the Hubbles Lake map by Keyway

How this one was made

Walnut, inset, with the dam following the waterline about half an inch out.

Hubbles is a compact shape with a lot going on inside it. Two rounded lobes joined by a narrower waist, then a tail running off to the southwest that thins as it goes. There is one small island near the west side, ringed completely and small enough to be a few square millimetres of walnut.

The interest is in the edge. The shoreline folds in and out constantly at small scale rather than running in long curves, which means the dam is being placed in short segments almost the whole way round rather than laid in long runs. More placements over less distance.

Two colours, the water and the black lettering. Nothing else on the board.