Antelope Canyon Lower
— the canyon you climb down into.
Not only on a wall.
Antelope Canyon Lower, 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.
“A narrow slot in Navajo Sandstone, cut by flash floods on the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation. The Diné name is Hazdistazí. Lower is the deeper V-shape, reached by a series of metal ladders down through a crack in the desert floor. Tours are guided by Navajo families who have held the access for generations. The walls glow orange overhead.
The place, in three passes.
Lower Antelope Canyon, Hazdistazí in Diné, is a slot canyon on the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation, about four miles east of Page, Arizona. It runs through Navajo Sandstone, wind-deposited dunes from the Early Jurassic, roughly 190 million years old. Tribal Park entry is at about 4,100 feet on the high desert above Lake Powell. Two tour operators, Ken's Tours and Dixie Ellis', share the canyon under permits from the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department.
The canyon reads orange, red, and purple depending on how high the sun stands and where it strikes the rim. Midday in late spring and summer brings the most colour through the slot, but Lower never produces the full vertical light beams Upper is known for; its shape is wrong for it. The walls were carved by repeated flash floods through the sandstone, and the curves overhead are the record of water that no longer runs.
Tours are guided only, with no independent access, and last about an hour, beginning with a steep ladder descent into the slot at the entrance. The canyon was the site of a flash flood on August 12, 1997, that killed eleven visitors, and tours now monitor weather upstream closely. Tickets run roughly $55 plus a Navajo Nation permit fee. Booking ahead is required from March through October; January and February offer the easiest same-day access.
