Lake Waramaug
— a long quiet lake the road keeps circling back to.
Not only on a wall.
Lake Waramaug, 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 second-largest natural lake in Connecticut, lying between New Preston, Warren, and Kent. A nine-mile road runs the perimeter past stone walls, dairy fields, and a hillside vineyard above the western shore. Mornings in late September the lake holds a cold mist that lifts by ten. The state park at the north end has the only public swimming on the lake; the rest of the shore is quiet residential. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Lake Waramaug spans about 656 acres in the towns of Warren, Kent, and Washington, in Litchfield County. At roughly two miles long and 45 feet at its deepest, it is the second-largest natural lake lying entirely within Connecticut, after Bantam Lake a few miles to the east. The name comes from a Wyantenock sachem who lived on its shores in the 1600s. State Route 45 climbs to it from New Preston, and the perimeter road runs about nine miles. Lake Waramaug State Park, at the north end, holds 95 acres and the only public beach.
The lake is largely spring-fed, with no major inflowing stream, which makes its turnover slow and its summer surface unusually warm for the region. The Lake Waramaug Task Force has run a hypolimnetic aeration system on the lake since 1983, drawing oxygen-poor bottom water through a treatment column to control the blue-green algae blooms that nearly closed the lake in the late 1970s. The program is one of the longest-running freshwater restorations in New England. Largemouth bass and chain pickerel hold along the weedline through summer.
Lake Waramaug State Park, at 30 Lake Waramaug Road in New Preston, runs from mid-May through Columbus Day with a beach, picnic groves, and seasonal camping along the north shore. A parking fee applies for out-of-state vehicles on weekends. Hopkins Vineyard, on the western hill above the lake, has poured wine from its 1787 barn since 1979. The perimeter road is paved, narrow, and shared with cyclists; the loop is a steady forty-five-minute drive at the posted limit. Hartford is about an hour east, New York City about two hours south.
