Redden State Forest
— a long stand of loblolly pine and the road that goes through it.
Not only on a wall.
Redden State Forest, 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.
“Delaware's largest state forest — roughly 12,500 acres of loblolly pine, mixed hardwood, and wet bottomland spread across several Sussex County tracts north of Georgetown. The land was assembled around Redden Lodge, a 1903 Pennsylvania Railroad executive hunting retreat that the state acquired in 1962. The forest runs to horse trails, fire roads, and quiet two-tracks through the pine, with the sound of pine needles underfoot.
The place, in three passes.
Redden State Forest covers about 12,500 acres in central Sussex County, Delaware — the largest state forest in the state's system. It is administered by the Delaware Forest Service and assembled from multiple tracts north of Georgetown along U.S. Route 113. The forest's character is set by loblolly pine, the species that dominates the Atlantic coastal plain, mixed with sweetgum, red maple, and stands of Atlantic white cedar in the wetter bottomland. Trails are open to hiking, horseback riding, and seasonal hunting. The headquarters and Redden Lodge sit on Redden Forest Drive.
The pine canopy here keeps the forest cool through Delmarva summers, with the loblolly stands generating a quieter, slightly resin-scented air of their own. In autumn the sweetgum and red maple bring colour at the edges; in winter the bare hardwoods open the understory to the long flat light of coastal-plain December. Spring brings warblers north along the Atlantic Flyway, and the Atlantic white cedar swamps hold their own micro-climate of standing water and trapped fog. The forest's elevation tops out under fifty feet above sea level.
Redden is open daily from dawn to dusk and is free to enter. The Redden Lodge — built in 1903 as a Pennsylvania Railroad executive hunting retreat and acquired by the state in 1962 — is the historic anchor and houses the forest's office. Trail maps are posted at the headquarters on Redden Forest Drive and at the major tract entrances along Route 113. Seasonal hunting is permitted with a Delaware licence; non-hunters should wear blaze orange during firearms deer season, which runs in November and again in January.
