Hermits Rest
— — a stone room with a fire and the whole canyon out the door.
Not only on a wall.
“A small stone building at the western end of Hermit Road on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, designed by Mary Colter for the Santa Fe Railway and opened in 1914. The arched fireplace inside is large enough to walk into and is smoke-stained on purpose; Colter wanted the room to feel as if a hermit had already lived in it for years. The bell over the entry arch came from a Spanish mission. Outside, the rim drops 4,500 feet to the Colorado. From the studio.
Hermits Rest, 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.
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.
The place, in three passes.
Hermit's Rest stands at the western terminus of Hermit Road on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, about eight miles west of Grand Canyon Village in Coconino County, Arizona. It was designed by Mary Colter for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and opened in 1914 as a rest stop at the end of the carriage road to the Hermit Trailhead. The building was named for Louis Boucher, a French-Canadian prospector who lived alone in Dripping Springs Canyon below the rim from 1891 to about 1912 and was known to local Santa Fe staff as the hermit.
Colter built the structure of unmortared-looking native limestone, with a rough timber porch and a deliberately rustic chimney that suggests the building leans into the hillside. The interior is dominated by a single arched alcove fireplace, large enough for two people to stand inside, with stonework she ordered smoke-stained on opening day so the room would not read as new. A cast iron bell hung in the entry arch was salvaged from a Spanish mission in New Mexico. Hermit's Rest was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 as part of the Grand Canyon Lodge group of Colter buildings.
Hermit Road is closed to private vehicles from March 1 through November 30 each year; visitors reach Hermit's Rest by the free park shuttle from the village or by walking the Greenway Trail along the rim. In December, January, and February private cars can drive the road. Inside the building there is a small Park Service gift shop and a snack counter; the rim viewpoint at the door is the launching point for the Hermit Trail, an unmaintained inner-canyon route that descends roughly 4,300 feet to the Colorado.