Activities

Mingus Mountain Widforss, West Baldy, the Inner Basin … some of the state’s best trails are best hiked in October, when the green of summer gives…

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,…

Mingus Mountain, Prescott National Forest On May 15, 1920, Aldo Leopold sent an inspection memorandum to the supervisor of the Prescott National…

Coconino National Forest, Sedona Of all the hikes in the Sedona backcountry, the Loy Canyon Trail is one of the best. Nevertheless, it’s never too…

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…

There are 714 biosphere reserves in the world. And 28 in the United States. There’s one in Arizona. It was established in 1976 at Organ Pipe Cactus…

Dos Cabezas and Chiricahua Mountains, Bowie There’s no shortage of history at Apache Pass, the route between the Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas…

Sonoran Desert, San Pedro River It’s too bad Tom Mix was in such a hurry. In the fall of 1940, the Western film star was south of Florence, driving…