Southern Hiking

Heart of Rocks Loop

The Apaches called them “standing-up rocks.” Today, people call them hoodoos or pinnacles or the most amazing rock formations they’ve ever seen. Any…
Northern Scenic Drives

Tse’nikani Scenic Road

There’s plenty to see on the Navajo Nation, and that generally means doing plenty of driving. That’s to be expected, given that the tribe’s land…
Southern Hiking

Sabino Canyon Trail

Water. That’s the payoff on this hike. But only because water is so rare on desert trails. Even without water, this would be a keeper. The saguaros…
Central Scenic Drives

Forest Road 525

The human history of Red Rock Country stretches back much further than the late 1800s, when a handful of hardy settlers founded the community that…
Southern Scenic Drives

Willow Springs Road

We hear it a lot: “Why do so many of the scenic drives in Arizona Highways require a high-clearance vehicle?” It isn’t by design. But there are only…
Central Hiking

Soldier Pass Trail

Sedona isn’t the only place nestled in the middle of Mother Nature. Flagstaff sits on the slopes of the San Francisco Peaks. Tucson is sandwiched…
Southern Hiking

Bear Canyon Trail

It’s called Bear Canyon, and there are bears out there, but the chances of seeing a mountain lion are better. And the odds are on the rise because,…
Southern Scenic Drives

Mission Road

War and peace. They’re more than the title of the Leo Tolstoy novel everyone falsely claims to have read. They’re also the two basic states of human…