Tunnel Park Holland
— the dune you walk through to find the lake.
Not only on a wall.
Tunnel Park Holland, 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 small county park west of Holland where a wooden tunnel cuts through a tall foredune and opens onto the Lake Michigan shore. People come for the sunset, which lands over open water, and for the stair beside the tunnel. By eight o'clock the lot empties and the beach holds just the wind and the low light.
The place, in three passes.
Tunnel Park sits on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Park Township, Ottawa County, about three miles north of downtown Holland. The park covers roughly 22 acres and is run by Ottawa County Parks. Its named feature is a wood-and-concrete tunnel that passes beneath a foredune to reach the beach, an alternative to the wooden stair on the southern dune. The shoreline faces due west, which puts the sun on the water for most of the year, and the gates are open from sunrise to sunset.
The view is open Lake Michigan, the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume, holding roughly 4,918 cubic kilometres of fresh water. Holland sits on the southeast curve of the lake, so wind generally arrives from the west across about 80 miles of open fetch. The surf builds quickly in October and November, and rip currents are most common on south or southwest wind days. The Holland Harbor breakwater light, a red gable structure first lit in 1907, is visible a mile and a half to the south.
The park is open daily from sunrise to sunset, with a small day-use fee for vehicles registered outside Ottawa County. A Michigan Recreation Passport is not required since this is a county park, not a state one. Picnic shelters, a playground, and grills sit on the bluff above the tunnel. Sunset is the busiest hour from late May through August and the lot turns over slowly. The tunnel and boardwalk are paved and broadly accessible; the southern dune stair counts 122 steps to the crest.
