Hebgen Lake
— the lake the earthquake rearranged.
Not only on a wall.
Hebgen 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.
“Hebgen sits at six thousand five hundred feet on the Madison River, a few miles north of the West Yellowstone gate. The dam went in in 1914. In August of 1959, a magnitude seven-point-three earthquake shifted the north shore six metres down and sent a landslide across the canyon below, sealing the river in a single minute. The new lake below is called Quake. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Hebgen Lake is a sixteen-mile reservoir on the Madison River in Gallatin County, Montana, immediately west of Yellowstone National Park. It was created in 1914 when the Montana Power Company completed Hebgen Dam, raising the natural Madison meadows behind a concrete arch. The lake sits at roughly 6,535 feet and is held within Gallatin National Forest. U.S. Highway 287 traces the northern shore from West Yellowstone toward Ennis. Most of the surrounding land is public.
The Madison runs in and out of Hebgen, and the river above the lake is one of Montana's most-fished blue-ribbon trout waters. Rainbow and brown trout move between the lake and the river through the year; the Madison Arm and the South Fork hold the largest fish. The summer salmonfly hatch, in late June, draws fly fishers from across the country. Hebgen freezes through hard. Ice-fishing for trout off Rainbow Point begins in January once the surface is safe.
West Yellowstone, six miles south on U.S. Highway 191, is the main service town. The Forest Service runs four campgrounds on the lake — Rainbow Point, Lonesomehurst, Cherry Creek, and Spring Creek — open from late May through September. The Earthquake Lake Visitor Center, eight miles below the dam on U.S. 287, tells the 1959 story with a view down onto the slide. Reservations through recreation.gov fill early for the August salmonfly weeks.
