Trail Ridge byway sunset Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile

The highest continuous paved road in North America. Forty-eight miles between Estes Park and Grand Lake, crossing the Continental Divide at Milner Pass. Eleven miles of it run above 11,500 feet through alpine tundra, the same plant community that grows north of the Arctic Circle. Closed by snow most of the year; open from Memorial Day to mid-October if the weather holds. Late in the day the light arrives nearly unfiltered up here. The sun drops behind the Never Summer Mountains and the tundra holds the colour, brown to copper to violet, while the Mummy Range to the north stays warm a little longer.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.