Photograph by Eirini Pajak
Southern Scenic Drives

Patagonia Ghost Towns

Santa Cruz County, in Southern Arizona, has no shortage of natural beauty, but there’s plenty of human history, too — including several ghost towns.…
Photograph by Paul Gill
Central Hiking

Barbershop Trail

This trail is not marked by red-white-and-blue barber poles. It would be nice if it were, but it’s not. In fact, it can be confusing at times.…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Northern Hiking

Hermit Trail

Hermits Rest is the most distant stop on the Hermit Road, and it’s the place where hikers go when they’re looking for some quiet adventure.…
Photograph by Rusty Childress
Eastern Scenic Drives

Escudilla Mountain Loop

In the 1930s, a trapper robbed Escudilla Mountain of what may have been Arizona’s last grizzly bear. And three-quarters of a century later, the…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Northern Hiking

Sycamore Rim Trail

Before there were wilderness areas, there were primitive areas, which, in the words of Aldo Leopold, were defined as “a continuous stretch of country…
Photograph by Laura Zirino
Central Scenic Drives

Winslow to Bear Canyon Lake

Seclusion can be hard to find on the Mogollon Rim when people flock there to escape the summer heat. But if you’re looking for peace and quiet in Rim…
Marshall Lake’s calm water mirrors nearby ponderosa pines beneath the San Francisco Peaks. | Tom Bean
Northern Hiking

Marshall Lake to Fisher Point

One thousand, nine hundred and thirteen. That’s how many miles separate Flagstaff, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. With that kind of distance, and all…
Photograph by Phillip Noll
Northern Scenic Drives

Point Sublime

When the payoff on a scenic drive is something called Point Sublime, it’s reasonable to think that the drive itself might fall short. In this case,…