Broken Bow Lake
— the green that comes from cold spring water and pine.
Not only on a wall.
Broken Bow 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.
“A clear, cold reservoir tucked into the Ouachita pine country of McCurtain County, held back by Broken Bow Dam on the Mountain Fork River. About 14,000 acres of water move slowly through a shoreline of shortleaf pine and oak. Beavers Bend State Park keeps the south end. In late autumn the hardwoods turn rust above the green, and the morning fog burns off the coves around nine. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Broken Bow Lake is a reservoir in McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma, formed by the impoundment of the Mountain Fork River behind Broken Bow Dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the dam in 1970. The lake covers about 14,000 acres at normal pool, with roughly 180 miles of shoreline winding through the Ouachita National Forest. Beavers Bend State Park lies at the south end, downstream of the dam along the cold tailwater.
The water is unusually clear for an Oklahoma reservoir, a function of the rocky Ouachita drainage and limited agricultural runoff in the upper watershed. Releases from the bottom of Broken Bow Dam stay cold year-round, and the tailwater on the Lower Mountain Fork has held a put-and-take rainbow trout fishery since 1989, the only year-round trout water in Oklahoma. The reservoir itself carries largemouth, smallmouth, and striped bass.
Autumn is the marquee window. The hardwoods mixed into the Ouachita pine canopy turn through late October and early November, with peak colour usually in the first week of November depending on the year. Summer brings the cabin economy that has made Hochatown the busiest weekend destination in the region. Winter is cold and quiet, with bald eagles wintering along the lake and the tailwater fishing at its best.
