shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileArizona

in southeast Arizona, the end of Bonita Canyon Drive

Chiricahua NM Massai Point

Name: Chiricahua NM Massai Point — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— — the rhyolite the volcano left standing.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand

— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines

— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall

— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround

— a note from the studio

“The end of the road at Chiricahua. From Massai Point the rhyolite forest spreads down the slope, hoodoos and balanced rocks shaped by a single caldera eruption twenty-seven million years ago. Wind moves through them and the light shifts every quarter hour. Most visitors come up from Willcox and stay just long enough to drive back down. from the studio

from the studio

— bring it home

Chiricahua NM Massai Point, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Chiricahua NM Massai Point

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

Chiricahua National Monument sits in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona, about thirty-six miles southeast of Willcox in Cochise County. Massai Point is the terminus of Bonita Canyon Drive, an eight-mile paved road that climbs from the visitor centre to 6,870 feet. The monument was designated by Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and is surrounded by the Coronado National Forest. The overlook is named for Massai, a Chiricahua Apache who escaped a prison train in 1886 and walked home to these mountains.

— informed by NPS — Chiricahua, Wikipedia

— the stone

The rock is Rhyolite Canyon Tuff, welded ash erupted from the Turkey Creek Caldera roughly twenty-seven million years ago in one of the largest volcanic events in North American geologic history. As the deposit cooled it fractured into vertical columns. Twenty-seven million years of freeze-thaw and rainfall widened those joints into the spires, balanced rocks, and slot passages the monument calls the Wonderland of Rocks. The columns at Massai Point sit closest to the lip of the original caldera.

— informed by NPS — Geology, USGS

— the visit

Admission is free. Bonita Canyon Drive opens at sunrise and closes at sunset, and the road to Massai Point is paved the full eight miles from the visitor centre. A free hikers' shuttle runs from the visitor centre to the Echo Canyon trailhead most mornings in season, which lets a single car cover the long Echo Canyon-Hailstone-Ed Riggs loop. The nearest fuel and food are in Willcox; the monument has no lodging or gas inside the boundary.

— informed by NPS — Plan Your Visit

— where

United States · Cochise County, Arizona

— within

Chiricahua National Monument

— elevation

2,094 m · 6,870 ft

— position

32.0086° N · 109.3450° W

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

58 km NW

Willcox

ranching town

35 km N

Fort Bowie National Historic Site

historic site

at the lake

Coronado National Forest

national forest

Chiricahua NM Massai Point

Willcox

Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Coronado National Forest

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Chiricahua NM Massai Point — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

Massai Point is the overlook at the end of Bonita Canyon Drive in Chiricahua National Monument, at 6,870 feet. It sits on the rim above the rhyolite hoodoos the park calls the Wonderland of Rocks.

Ash from the Turkey Creek Caldera erupted about twenty-seven million years ago, welded into rhyolite tuff, then cracked vertically as it cooled. Erosion along those joints carved the columns and balanced rocks visible today.

Massai was a Chiricahua Apache who escaped a prisoner-of-war train in 1886 and travelled on foot back to these mountains. The overlook bears his name; the monument lies within the historic Chiricahua Apache homeland.

From Willcox, take AZ-186 about thirty-six miles southeast to the monument entrance, then drive the eight-mile paved Bonita Canyon Drive to its end. The road is suitable for any passenger car.

No. Chiricahua National Monument charges no admission. The Park Service operates a free hikers' shuttle from the visitor centre to the Echo Canyon trailhead most mornings in season.

Spring and autumn are mild at 6,000 feet, with daytime highs in the sixties and seventies. Summer brings afternoon thunderstorms; winter can close the upper road after snow.

— about the piece in your home

Yes. Hikers who know the Echo Canyon loop recognise the rhyolite columns instantly. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well; the Coaster Set works for someone who has spent many trips there.

The warm rhyolite oranges and shadowed greens settle into Southwest-modern, desert-minimalist, and earth-toned Maximalist rooms. It also reads well against natural oak, raw plaster, and oxidised copper.

Yes. Desert-modern leans on rust, bone, and shadowed greens, and the Chiricahua palette sits inside that range. The Large above a sideboard works as the warm anchor for a cooler room.

Above a standard sofa, choose a single Large or a four-tile Mural. Above a longer console, a nine-tile Mural reads as one continuous piece. A Medium suits a narrower wall.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both resist moisture and scratches and suit a backsplash, shower wall, or a humid bathroom. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed display.

Microfibre cloth and water. The colour is infused into the ceramic surface under heat and pressure and sits beneath a thin glossy finish, so it cleans the way the tile does.

Yes. Reid Wender curates the WenderVista atlas and every piece is original to the studio. The work is hand-finished in Knoxville and never licensed from another publisher.

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