Gooseberry Falls Lower Falls
— the last drop before the river meets the lake.
Not only on a wall.
Gooseberry Falls Lower Falls, 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 Lower Falls of the Gooseberry River, downstream of the Highway 61 bridge in Gooseberry Falls State Park. The river crosses dark basalt left by ancient lava flows and steps down toward Lake Superior, which is close enough here to smell. Fewer visitors come this far than to the Middle Falls; the path drops through birch and cedar to a quieter ledge. In spring meltwater the drop runs heavy and brown; by August the rock shows through. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Gooseberry Falls State Park sits on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Lake County, Minnesota, about 13 miles northeast of Two Harbors along Highway 61. The Gooseberry River drops through a series of falls — Upper, Middle, and Lower — within a short walk of the visitor center. The Lower Falls is the last drop before the river meets Lake Superior, roughly a quarter mile downstream of the highway bridge. The park is one of the oldest in Minnesota's state system, established in 1937.
The river flows over basalt laid down by the Midcontinent Rift roughly 1.1 billion years ago, when this part of North America was pulling apart. Lava sheets cooled into the dark, fractured rock that ledges the falls today. Spring runoff in April and May is the heaviest pulse; by late summer the flow thins enough to read individual courses in the stone. In winter the falls partially ice over and draw climbers and photographers in equal numbers.
The park requires a Minnesota state-park vehicle permit, available daily or annually. The visitor center sits just off Highway 61 and is the starting point for the Falls Loop. A short paved spur reaches the Middle Falls overlook; the Lower Falls is a further descent on a dirt-and-stone path that includes stairs. The full Falls Loop runs under a mile and crosses the historic CCC-built stone bridge from the late 1930s.
