Photograph by Paul Markow
The Man Who Audaciously Asked Ansel Adams for All of His Photographs
Back in the summer of 1977, John Schaefer would sometimes slip out of his Tucson office in the middle of the workday, drive the dozen-odd miles to Mission San Xavier del Bac and spend a couple of…
Photograph by Jack Breed (Click to view entire image.)
Arizona's Timbered Treasure
ARIZONA’S MIDRIFF IS FAR FROM BARE. If you scurry across the much-used southern routes, you may think we haven’t enough wood to make a totem pole. But that’s because you’ve bypassed our 11-million-…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Inside The Box
We were camped in a narrow corridor of black cliffs that actually felt like a box, but it hardly felt claustrophobic. A whisper of breeze carried the rich, muddy scent of the river. Wispy clouds…
Photograph by Richard L. Danley
This Isn't Going To Be Easy
Don’t look down,” I mutter to myself as I look down. My stomach plummets at the dizzying view, and a chill shoots to my feet. I’m standing on a sloped, gravelly trail, inches from a 400-plus-foot…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
The Santa Catalinas: Tucson’s Nearby Wilderness
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the September 1985 issue of Arizona Highways. WE BED DOWN IN DAN SADDLE where the world of oak meets the world of pine. A big alligator…
Photograph by Bill Steen
Great Balls of Fire
Chiltepin peppers are tiny things. Almost cute. They’re invariably described as “pea-sized,” but they appear even smaller than that. Shining in the sun on a December afternoon and brightening their…
Photograph by Kerrick James
Where Nature Meets Nurture
On a late afternoon in mid-November, the sun angles low over The Nature Conservancy’s Aravaipa Canyon guesthouse, lighting up a yellow­ing pecan tree like a flame. Below it, a dozen wild turkeys…
Photograph by Brad Armstrong
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater looks positively blissful. It’s the summer of 1940, and 31-year-old Barry is deep into a journey along the Colorado River that will make him just the 73rd person to travel through the…