Tent Rocks slot canyon
— the narrow place that opens to sky.
Not only on a wall.
Tent Rocks slot canyon, 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 slot in the volcanic tuff, wide enough for one person at a time. The walls go up white and ribbed, ponderosa roots feeling for water in the cracks. At the top the canyon ends and the cone-shaped hoodoos stand in their crowd, each capped by the boulder that kept the rain off the soft stone underneath. The Pueblo de Cochiti closed the trail in 2020 and as of this writing it has not reopened. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks sits on the Pajarito Plateau, roughly 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe and bordered on every side by the Pueblo de Cochiti. The cones are pumice and tuff laid down by eruptions of the Jemez volcanic field six to seven million years ago, then carved by wind and water into tents of soft stone capped by harder rock. The Slot Canyon Trail climbs about 630 feet from the trailhead at 5,570 feet to a mesa rim near 6,200 feet, the canyon walls closing to a single person's width in places.
The hoodoos are volcanic tuff, the consolidated ash of the same eruptions that built the Valles Caldera to the north. Each cone wears a cap rock of harder welded tuff or basalt; when that cap eventually falls, the cone underneath erodes away in a single wet season. Kasha-Katuwe means white cliffs in the Keresan language of the Cochiti people, and the white is real, the color of the unweathered pumice. The tallest cones stand around 90 feet. The slot canyon walks the visitor through the same layered ash before opening at the top.
The monument has been closed to the public since April 2020, when the Pueblo de Cochiti requested that the gates remain shut. The land is co-managed by the BLM and the Pueblo, and the decision rests with the Pueblo. As of mid-2026 there has been no announced reopening date. Visitors who once walked the Slot Canyon Trail remember a 1.5-mile climb from the trailhead at the end of Tribal Road 92, with the canyon narrowing to shoulder width and the cones rising at the rim. Until the gates reopen, the page on the BLM site carries the current status.
