Activities
Western
Scenic Drives
Hovatter Road
It sounds like something out of the Wild West: a remote desert outpost, without electricity or running water, at the end of a rocky dirt road. The…
Northern
Scenic Drives
Sycamore Point
When you start this drive amid a thick forest of ponderosa pines, you’ll find it hard to believe that you’ll soon be peering into one of Arizona’s…
Western
Scenic Drives
Gregg's Hideout
You don’t meet a lot of people named Gregg these days. In fact, in 2020, “Gregg” (with three G’s) was only the 5,326th most popular baby name in the…
Eastern
Scenic Drives
Big Lake Loop
Fire does what it does. On just about any scenic drive in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona, you’ll be reminded of that. But the forest does…
Northern
Scenic Drives
Buck Farm Viewpoint
Gary Ladd knows Northern Arizona as well as anyone. For more than half a century, he’s been photographing that part of the state — including Marble…
Southern
Scenic Drives
Ajo Mountain Drive
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument covers 516 square miles of Southern Arizona, so you could spend a month there and not see all of this isolated,…
Eastern
Scenic Drives
Pinal Peak
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that we all could stand to be a little more polite to each other. On the route to the summit…
Southern
Scenic Drives
Apache Pass Road
Dos Cabezas and Chiricahua Mountains, Bowie
There’s no shortage of history at Apache Pass, the route between the Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas…