Lake Compounce
— the coaster that runs through the trees.
Not only on a wall.
Lake Compounce, 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 oldest continuously operating amusement park in North America, opened on the shore of a small glacial lake in 1846. The wooden coaster Boulder Dash runs into the trees on the hillside above the water. On a summer evening the lake holds the lights of the carousel and the cars rattle the timbers all the way down to the midway.
The place, in three passes.
Lake Compounce straddles the line between Bristol and Southington in central Connecticut, on a small glacial lake at the foot of the Bristol hills. The park opened to the public on October 6, 1846, which makes it the oldest continuously operating amusement park in North America. It runs about three hundred and thirty-two acres including the lake and surrounding hillside, and is owned today by Palace Entertainment. The season opens in May and closes after Halloween, with Crocodile Cove water park beside the rides.
Boulder Dash is the signature ride: a wooden coaster opened in 2000, built into the natural slope of the hillside rather than on a constructed frame. It runs along the ridge above the lake and ranks consistently among the highest-rated wooden coasters in the world in the Amusement Today Golden Ticket poll. The 1911 carousel, a Looff-style hand-carved machine, still turns on the original midway. The park is reached from Interstate 84 via exit 31, with parking at the gate.
The park runs from early May through the first weekend of November. Crocodile Cove, the on-site water park, opens with the warm weather and closes after Labor Day. October weekends turn into Phantom Falls Fest and the Haunted Graveyard walk, with the trees on the hill above Boulder Dash going gold over the lake. The coaster reads differently against the fall canopy than it does in July, the timber and the leaves on the same key.
