Wichita Falls falls park
— the river that named the city, given back its falls.
Not only on a wall.
Wichita Falls falls park, 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.
“Wichita Falls lost the falls it was named for in a flood in 1886. A century later the city built them back — a four-tiered, fifty-four-foot cascade in Lucy Park, set against stacked limestone and visible from Interstate 44. The new falls were dedicated in 1987 and run from a closed pump system back into a holding pool below. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The replica falls sit in Lucy Park along the Wichita River, just north of downtown Wichita Falls in north-central Texas. The original natural falls on the Wichita River — a four-foot drop that gave the city its name when it was founded in 1882 — were washed away by floodwaters in 1886. After nearly a century without falls, the city completed a manmade, fifty-four-foot four-tiered cascade in 1987 at a cost of about $400,000, with water recirculated by pump and the structure set so it would be visible from Interstate 44.
The cascade drops about fifty-four feet over four staged tiers of cut and stacked native limestone, fed by a closed pump system that recirculates from a holding pool at the base rather than from the Wichita River itself, so the flow runs clear regardless of river silt. The structure was designed to remain visible from the southbound lanes of Interstate 44 — the city's chosen front door for travelers coming down from Oklahoma — and runs through most daylight hours across the warm months of the year.
Lucy Park sits at the north edge of downtown Wichita Falls, free to enter, open from dawn until ten at night. A paved path leads from the parking lot to the base of the falls in about three minutes' walk, with a viewing platform reached by stairs from the lower path. There is no admission and no gate. The falls run continuously through the warm months and are typically shut down during freezing weather to protect the pump and piping, so winter visitors often see dry limestone.
