Pictured Rocks Grand Sable Dunes
— sand the lake left behind.
Not only on a wall.
Pictured Rocks Grand Sable Dunes, 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.
“Perched dunes along the eastern end of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, rising roughly three hundred feet above Lake Superior between Au Sable Point and Grand Marais. Bear grass and pitch pine hold the upper slopes. The Log Slide drops straight to the water, the route loggers once used to send timber crashing down to the beach.
The place, in three passes.
The Grand Sable Dunes spread across roughly five square miles at the eastern end of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, in Alger County, Michigan. The perched dunes sit on top of a glacial moraine, their summits roughly three hundred feet above the surface of Lake Superior. The closest town is Grand Marais, three miles to the east. The dunes are reached from the Log Slide Overlook off County Road H-58, or from the beach below by way of the Au Sable Point Light Station trail.
The wind off Lake Superior shapes the dunes from the west, drifting sand inland and uphill across the moraine. Annual averages put summer highs in the mid-seventies Fahrenheit and lake-effect snowfall along the Grand Marais shore at over a hundred and forty inches. The lake reaches its lowest visible water level in late autumn and freezes back from shore in mid-January. Sand surface temperatures on a clear July afternoon climb well above the air, hot enough to walk only in shoes.
The Log Slide Overlook is the standard approach, a short walk from a parking pull-off on County Road H-58 between Munising and Grand Marais. The National Park Service warns that the descent to the beach takes about three minutes and the climb back about an hour. There is no fee for day use. The Au Sable Light Station, four miles west along the shore, can be reached on foot from the dunes or from the Hurricane River Campground.
