Glenwood Springs hot pool Ceramic Art Tile

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.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

The Glenwood Hot Springs Pool sits on the north bank of the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, at the confluence with the Roaring Fork River. The town is on I-70 between Denver and Grand Junction, about 160 miles west of Denver. Aspen is forty miles south up Highway 82.

The main pool runs more than four hundred feet end to end, which makes it one of the largest hot-springs pools in the world. It holds roughly a million gallons of water. A separate, smaller therapy pool sits at the east end and is kept hotter.

From the Yampah spring, which discharges more than three million gallons a day at 122°F. The water carries fifteen dissolved minerals, sodium and bicarbonate among the most concentrated. The Ute people, who named the spring, used it as a healing soak long before the bathhouse opened in 1888.

The main pool holds near 90°F, kept at swimmable temperatures by mixing the 122°F spring water with cold water before it enters. The smaller therapy pool runs near 104°F. In summer the main pool feels cool against the air; in winter the steam comes off thick.

Yes. The pool runs every day of the year except for two short maintenance closures in spring and fall. Winter is many regulars' favorite season, with snow falling onto the rising steam and disappearing before reaching the water.

The Ute people, who called the spring Yampah, meaning Big Medicine. They used the warm water as a healing soak long before settlers arrived. The town's bathhouse, the first commercial use of the spring, opened in 1888, two years after the railroad reached Glenwood Springs.

By car on I-70 from Denver, about three hours west, or by Amtrak's California Zephyr, which stops at the 1904 depot on the south side of the river. The pool is a few minutes' walk from the depot, across the Grand Avenue Bridge.

It's been a meaningful gift for our customers with ties to the town, including people who soaked here as kids, who got married at the Hotel Colorado, or who drive over from Aspen for Sunday mornings in the steam. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The tile reads jewel-toned and dimensional, with the cold blues and greens of the river running into the steam-warm tones of the pool. It works with Mountain-modern, Cabin-modern, and Jewel-tone Maximalist rooms. It also holds its own in a warm-toned bathroom where the colour matches the steam.

Yes. Alpine-modern interiors lean on rough wood, warm metals, and a few pieces of art that hold their own against the mountains outside. A Medium on a board-and-batten wall or above a fireplace works in this room. Cabin-modern and Lodge-modern do similar work.

Above a sofa, the Large reads from across the room. For a fuller statement, a four-tile Mural pairs the Glenwood pool with three kindred Colorado vistas in a square grid. Above a console, a Medium or a Triptych runs the right scale.

Yes, with the Dura Satin or Matte finish, which is scratch-resistant and built for vertical installation in damp rooms. The Glossy finish is for show-pieces and framed wall art, not for splashbacks. The colour lives in the ceramic surface; humidity and steam will not fade it.

Microfibre cloth with water for everyday dust. For anything stickier, a damp cloth with mild soap. No abrasives, no scouring pads, no bleach. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it lives in the surface and will not lift with normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista tile is painted by Reid Wender, the curator, in our Knoxville, Tennessee studio. No licensing, no third-party stock, no shared library. The Glenwood Springs hot pool is one piece in the WenderVista atlas of places, each a single original.