Jones Beach West End
— — the wide quiet end of a famous beach.
Not only on a wall.
“The far western parking fields of Jones Beach State Park, on the outer barrier beach of Long Island's South Shore. Robert Moses opened the park in 1929; West End sits past the bathhouses and the boardwalk, where the dune line widens and the crowd thins. Piping plovers nest in the cordoned strip above the tide from spring into August. On clear afternoons in May, the sand is the colour of dry oat and the surf is the colour of slate.
Jones Beach West End, 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.
Jones Beach State Park stretches along a six-and-a-half-mile barrier beach on the South Shore of Long Island in Nassau County, New York. Robert Moses opened the park in 1929 as the centerpiece of his Long Island State Park Commission, with Art Deco bathhouses and a central brick water tower designed by Herbert Magoon. The West End comprises Field 2 and Field 6, on the western half of the barrier, west of the Wantagh State Parkway interchange and east of Jones Inlet, each with its own parking field and direct beach access from the dune crossings.
The Atlantic at Jones Beach is open ocean, with no protective bay and no island shelf, so the surf is full Atlantic swell, building through hurricane season from August into October. Water temperatures reach the low seventies in late July and August. The beach faces almost due south. The West End sits closest to Jones Inlet, where the tide turns hard between the ocean and South Oyster Bay behind it, and the sand carries flecks of pulverized clam shell into the foam.
Lifeguards are on duty Memorial Day through Labor Day, roughly ten in the morning to six in the evening, with red flags posted from the central towers when the surf or rip risk is high. The piping plover closure runs from late March into August, when small stretches of dune and beach are roped off for nesting and dogs are not permitted on any field. September and early October are the quietest months, with warm sand, cool water, and the lifeguard chairs already pulled.