Royal Gorge bridge 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 deck of the Royal Gorge Bridge sits 955 feet (291 metres) above the Arkansas River. From its 1929 opening until 2001 it was the highest bridge in the world, when China's Liuguanghe Bridge surpassed it. Several taller spans have since been built in Asia and Europe.

Construction began in June 1929 and the bridge opened on December 6 the same year, six months later. American engineer George E. Cole designed it; Cañon City businessman Lon Piper financed and promoted it as a tourist attraction. Total construction cost ran about $350,000.

No. The bridge is open to foot traffic only, included with park admission. The deck is paved with 1,292 wooden planks and runs 1,260 feet across the canyon. High crosswinds occasionally close the bridge for safety, most often in late winter and early spring.

The Arkansas River runs through the Royal Gorge, draining the Sawatch Range and the Collegiate Peaks to the west. By the time it reaches the gorge it has fallen close to five thousand feet from its headwaters above Leadville, and the canyon floor narrows to about fifty feet wide at the water.

The bridge crosses the Arkansas River about twelve miles west of Cañon City, Colorado, in Fremont County, at coordinates 38.4612 N / 105.3289 W. It sits inside the Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, reached from U.S. Highway 50 between Pueblo and Salida.

No. The June 2013 Royal Gorge Fire burned forty-eight of the fifty-two structures on the park grounds, but the bridge itself survived nearly untouched. The park rebuilt and reopened in August 2014. The wooden deck has been re-planked repeatedly over its long service life.

The Royal Gorge Route Railroad follows the Arkansas River along the canyon floor, on a single track first completed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western in 1879. Trains leave from the Santa Fe Depot in Cañon City on two-hour round-trips between Cañon City and Parkdale.

It carries well for customers with roots in southern Colorado. The bridge is a fixture of childhood road trips, school field trips, and birthday weekends down U.S. 50 from Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Cañon City itself. A Medium or Large with a handwritten note from the studio reads as a piece of home.

The deep canyon-granite, river-amber, and high-sky palette sits in mountain-modern, jewel-tone maximalist, and industrial-leaning rooms. The black iron suspension cables give the piece a structural backbone that holds up alongside dark wood, weathered brass, leather, and stone.

Yes. The current alpine-modern direction has moved past all-grey reclaimed wood toward warmer mineral palettes and a single luminous focal point. The Royal Gorge Bridge tile lands in that register and works well as a Large above a mantel or a 4-tile Mural in an entryway with high ceilings.

Above a console or a bed, a single Large holds the wall on its own. Above a standard three-seat sofa, most rooms want a 4-tile Mural for a balanced block, or a 9-tile Mural where the wall is wide enough to give the canyon room to drop away.

Yes. For a bathroom, shower, or kitchen backsplash, choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish; both are scratch-resistant and built for damp, vertical installation. The Glossy finish is held back for framed wall pieces in dry rooms.

A soft microfibre cloth and clean water are all the surface needs. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so the image lives in the tile itself and will not lift or fade with routine cleaning. Skip abrasive pads and harsh solvents.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is created in-house by Reid Wender and hand-finished in our Knoxville, Tennessee studio. The artwork is not licensed or reprinted from another source; each place is painted in our own visual language and made for this catalog.