Sequoia National Park
— — the trees you cannot photograph at full height.
Not only on a wall.
“The second national park the country ever made, set aside in 1890 to protect the largest trees alive. The Giant Forest holds the General Sherman — 84 metres tall, 1,487 cubic metres of wood, somewhere around 2,200 years old. Mount Whitney sits on the eastern boundary. The road climbs through chaparral and oak into the cinnamon-barked silence of the sequoia groves. — from the studio
Sequoia National Park, 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.
Sequoia National Park covers 1,635 square kilometres of the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California. Established on 25 September 1890, it was the second national park in the United States after Yellowstone, created specifically to protect the giant sequoias of the Giant Forest from logging. The park is jointly administered with Kings Canyon National Park to the north. Mount Whitney, at 4,421 metres the highest peak in the contiguous United States, sits on the park's eastern boundary.
The Giant Forest grove sits at about 2,050 metres on the Giant Forest plateau. The General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth by trunk volume, measures roughly 84 metres tall with a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated at 2,200 years old. Around it stand the Senate, the House, and the President — sequoias each old enough to have been mature when the Roman Empire fell. Cinnamon bark, thick enough to insulate against fire, gives the grove its specific colour.
The Generals Highway climbs from the Ash Mountain entrance at 520 metres to the Giant Forest in about an hour of driving; trailers and larger RVs are not advised. Moro Rock, a granite dome with 350 steps cut into it, offers the long view south over the Great Western Divide. Crystal Cave requires a separately ticketed tour. The park is open year-round, but tyre chains are often required from November through April. The cleanest light is the first hour after sunrise.