Ichetucknee Springs tubing
— a river that runs the same temperature all year.
Not only on a wall.
Ichetucknee Springs tubing, 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 six-mile spring run rising out of the limestone north of Fort White, joined from the side by eight named springs, all of them seventy-two degrees in February and seventy-two in August. From Memorial Day to Labor Day the park caps the tube count at 750 a day. The water is clear enough to read a coin from the surface.
The place, in three passes.
Ichetucknee Springs State Park covers 2,669 acres in Columbia and Suwannee Counties, about four miles northwest of Fort White, Florida. The river system rises from a first-magnitude spring at the head and is fed by eight named springs along its six-mile course before joining the Santa Fe River near the Suwannee. The U.S. Department of the Interior designated the headspring a National Natural Landmark in 1972. Florida State Parks manages the property, including a north entrance at the headspring and a south entrance at the takeout.
The river holds at 72°F all year, fed by Floridan Aquifer water that has filtered through limestone for an estimated forty years before reaching the surface. The headspring discharges roughly 230 cubic feet per second on an average day. Visibility runs deep enough to count individual blades of tape grass on the bottom from a tube at the surface. Manatees move up from the Suwannee in winter, and longnose gar and largemouth bass hold in the slow bends. The flow is steady enough that swimmers drift the channel without paddling.
Tubing season runs from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day, with a daily cap of 750 tubers north of the midpoint to limit grass damage. The full-river float runs about 3.5 miles and takes roughly three hours. Park admission and a separate tube pass are required, and tubes are not sold inside the park; outfitters operate on County Road 238 just outside both entrances. Trams run between the south takeout and the north entry. Glass containers and disposable food packaging are prohibited along the river.
