Lake Mead Boulder Beach
— the old waterline, written on the rock.
Not only on a wall.
Lake Mead Boulder Beach, 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 easiest swim into Lake Mead from Las Vegas. Boulder Beach sits at the south end of the lake on Lakeshore Road, a few minutes off U.S. Route 93 east of Boulder City. The shore is gravel and rounded cobble, the water clear over a pale bottom. A line of white mineral, the old bathtub ring, climbs the canyon walls above the swim area, the record of where the lake stood before the drought years. The National Park Service runs the campground and the marina road from here. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Boulder Beach lies on the south end of Lake Mead in Clark County, Nevada, about six miles east of Boulder City along Lakeshore Road. It is one of the most accessible developed shoreline points in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the first national recreation area in the United States, established in 1964 around the reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The beach itself is gravel and cobble rather than sand, with a long shallow approach to deeper water. The Boulder Beach Campground and the Hemenway Harbor launch ramp sit immediately adjacent.
Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States by capacity, formed when Hoover Dam closed the Colorado River in 1935. Surface elevation in the early years stood above 1,200 feet; the long Colorado Basin drought beginning in 2000 dropped levels into the 1,040-foot range by 2022, the lowest since the reservoir filled. The white mineral band on the canyon walls above Boulder Beach, often called the bathtub ring, is calcium carbonate left behind as the water fell. The shoreline at Boulder Beach has moved repeatedly as a result.
The National Park Service charges an entrance fee at the Lake Mead gate, valid for seven days and accepted at all developed areas. Boulder Beach is open year-round; swim season effectively runs May through October, when water temperatures climb into the seventies and eighties. Summer afternoons are hot, well above one hundred degrees on the shore, and the developed beach offers limited shade. The campground holds 154 sites with restrooms and potable water. Hemenway Harbor, a short drive north along Lakeshore Road, is the closest fuel and launch ramp.
