Rocky Gap Lake Habeeb
— the small lake between two mountains.
Not only on a wall.
Rocky Gap Lake Habeeb, 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.
“Lake Habeeb sits in a gap between Evitts Mountain and Martin Mountain, a 243-acre reservoir held by an earthen dam at the eastern end. The water reads green in summer and slate in October when the maples on the surrounding ridges go red. Rocky Gap State Park wraps the shoreline, and a quiet path along the western edge gives the lake back to anyone willing to walk twenty minutes from the parking lot. The mountains close in on both sides. The wind comes through the gap. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Rocky Gap State Park covers about 3,000 acres in Allegany County, Maryland, in the Ridge-and-Valley section of the Appalachians east of Cumberland. The 243-acre Lake Habeeb is the park's center, an artificial reservoir formed in 1974 by an earthen dam on Rocky Gap Run. The lake is named for William Habeeb, a state senator who championed the park's creation. Evitts Mountain rises along the southern shore and Martin Mountain along the northern, with the gap between them giving the park its name. Interstate 68 passes the northern edge a few miles east of Cumberland.
The park's full season runs late May through October. Lake Habeeb opens for swimming at three small sand beaches in summer, with the deep middle of the lake holding around 49 feet at the dam. Largemouth bass, trout, and bluegill are the main warm-season catches. Mid-October brings the Allegheny ridges through a two-week red-and-amber turn, when the mixed oak and maple forest above the lake colors out at roughly 1,400 to 2,000 feet of elevation. Winter is quieter, with the beach areas closed and the trails open for walking when conditions allow.
The park entrance is off Interstate 68 at Exit 50, about seven miles east of Cumberland and roughly two and a half hours west of Baltimore. Day-use fees apply at the gate from Memorial Day through Labor Day; the rest of the year entry is by self-registration. The Lakeside Loop Trail circles the water in about five miles, and the more strenuous Evitts Homesite Trail climbs the southern ridge. A separately operated Rocky Gap Casino Resort with a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course sits at the eastern end of the park property.
