Deep Creek Lake
— the long summer Maryland keeps in the western corner.
Not only on a wall.
Deep Creek Lake, 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.
“Maryland's largest inland body of water, a 3,900-acre reservoir up in the Allegheny highlands of Garrett County. The lake was built in 1925 to feed a hydroelectric station on the Youghiogheny; the state took over recreation management in 2000. Cabins line the shore. Wisp ski resort sits on the ridge above. The water freezes hard most winters.
The place, in three passes.
Deep Creek Lake covers about 3,900 acres in Garrett County, Maryland, at an elevation of roughly 2,460 feet in the Allegheny Mountains. It is the largest inland body of water in the state. The lake was built in 1925 when the Pennsylvania Electric Company dammed Deep Creek for hydroelectric power feeding the Youghiogheny River drainage. Maryland's Department of Natural Resources took over recreational management of the lake in 2000. Deep Creek Lake State Park occupies a stretch of the eastern shore near Swanton.
Deep Creek runs a full four-season calendar. Summer brings the boat traffic the lake is built for, with rentals and slips concentrated around McHenry and Deep Creek Drive. Autumn turns the surrounding ridges into one of the more reliable color runs in the mid-Atlantic, usually peaking in the second week of October. Winter regularly freezes the lake hard enough for ice fishing, and Wisp Resort on Marsh Mountain across the road runs Maryland's only downhill ski operation. Spring is the quietest season; many of the cabins are still shuttered.
The lake is reservoir water rather than glacial: warm enough for swimming in July and August, cold and clear the rest of the year. Largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, yellow perch, and northern pike are the working species; the lake holds Maryland's state-record yellow perch among others. The shoreline runs about 65 miles when traced, deeply fingered into coves. Brookside Public Beach inside the state park is the main no-fee swimming access; most of the remaining shoreline is private cabin frontage.
