Mogollon Rim
— the cliff that cuts the state in two.
Not only on a wall.
Mogollon Rim, 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 two-thousand-foot escarpment that marks the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, running roughly 200 miles east from south of Flagstaff toward the New Mexico line. Ponderosa pine on the top; juniper and saguaro country below. Arizona's largest continuous ponderosa forest sits along the rim. The drive on Forest Road 300 is one of the long quiet drives the state still has.
The place, in three passes.
The Mogollon Rim is a roughly 200-mile escarpment that marks the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau across central Arizona, running east from south of Flagstaff toward the New Mexico state line. The rim averages a 2,000-foot drop from plateau to the country below, and along most of its length it separates the Coconino and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests above from the Tonto National Forest below. It takes its name from Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón, Spanish governor of New Mexico in the early 1700s.
The top of the rim holds what is often described as the world's largest contiguous stand of ponderosa pine, running essentially unbroken from the rim east into the White Mountains. Elevation along the edge averages between 7,000 and 8,000 feet. The air on top is about twenty degrees cooler than the desert below in summer, and the rim's edge collects the afternoon thunderheads that build off the Mogollon shelf and roll south through July and August.
Forest Road 300, the Rim Road, runs roughly 43 miles along the edge from Arizona 87 east to Arizona 260, a graded gravel road that holds long stretches with no service and no traffic. The Mogollon Rim Visitor Center near Strawberry is open seasonally. Zane Grey wrote on the rim in the 1920s; his cabin near Tonto Creek burned in the 1990 Dude Fire. The rim is what Arizonans mean when they say 'the high country.'
