Lake Granby Indian Peaks Front Range Ceramic Art Tile
— — the morning the divide doubles on the water.
Not only on a wall.
“A reservoir on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, holding water the Indian Peaks send down. The lake sits at 8,284 feet, the third-largest body of water in the state, ringed by Arapaho National Recreation Area. From the eastern shore the Continental Divide rises in a wall of granite. The peaks of Apache, Navajo, Shoshoni, and Arapaho gave the wilderness its name. The road from Granby follows the shoreline north toward Rocky Mountain National Park. In the still hours, before the wind, the whole divide doubles in the water.
Lake Granby Indian Peaks Front Range Ceramic Art Tile, 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.
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 place, in three passes.
Lake Granby sits at 8,284 feet (2,525 m) on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, in Grand County in north-central Colorado. The reservoir was built between 1947 and 1950 as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, holding back the upper Colorado River behind Granby Dam to feed the trans-divide tunnel that waters Colorado's eastern plains. It anchors the Arapaho National Recreation Area, managed by the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, and is the third-largest body of water in the state at roughly 7,256 surface acres with about forty miles of shoreline. The northern arm reaches toward Grand Lake and the western entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The water that fills the lake comes off the Continental Divide as snowmelt from the Indian Peaks Wilderness, where North Arapaho Peak rises to 13,502 feet and the Arapaho Glacier still holds a shrinking pocket of permanent ice. Granby's surface reads cold blue against the granite of the divide, taking colour from depth and from the silt the high creeks carry down in spring. From the eastern shore the wall of peaks doubles in the still water in the early morning, before the afternoon wind comes off the divide. The lake is open to fishing year-round; lake trout, rainbow, and kokanee salmon hold deep through summer and again under the ice.
U.S. Highway 34 runs along the eastern shore from the town of Granby north to the western entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, open year-round. Trail Ridge Road, the high alpine route through the park, opens by late May and closes by mid-October; the lake itself stays accessible through every month. Summer brings boating, fishing, and the Stillwater Campground filling on weekends. Autumn turns the willow flats gold through late September. Winter freezes the surface thick enough for ice fishing, one of Colorado's standard ice-trout grounds. Spring is the quiet season, the divide still deep under snow, the water clearest along the shore before runoff.