A color photograph shows a smiling white man in a blue plaid shirt. He is anchored to a rock wall with climbing gear and holding a camera with a large lens.
Help Support Our Friend John Burcham's Recovery
Earlier this month, our friend and longtime Arizona Highways contributor suffered a catastrophic fall while rock climbing in a remote part of Sedona. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and severe…
A new aspen shoot rises from earth charred by the Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This photo was made just south of Cape Royal Road on October 1, the day the road reopened to the public. By Amy S. Martin
Listening to the Land: Reflections on the North Rim
A week or two after the summer solstice, mirage-inducing heat across the desert Southwest creates a low-pressure vacuum. Winds, weighted with moisture, sweep in from the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of…
Stars and the Milky Way fill the night sky over Wotans Throne in a view from Cape Royal, on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The Canyon’s world-renowned dark skies have made it a haven for stargazers — and, since 2021, the home of an astronomer-in-residence program sponsored by Grand Canyon Conservancy. | Sean Parker
Making a Night of it
So, here I am, gazing more than 2 million light-years into the universe from a spot a mile deep and a billion years inside the Earth. I’m at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It’s 26 years ago — not…
Grand Canyon wrangler Remy Kelbel prepares one of the mules at the South Rim for a morning ride. Kelbel is one of up to nine wranglers employed at the Canyon by Xanterra Travel Collection. By John Burcham
Riding High
‌Remy Kelbel was 4 years old when she rode a horse for the first time. She didn’t come from a riding or ranching family; it was pure chance that her Aunt Vonna took her to a stable near her hometown…
The setting sun colors the sky over the layered buttes of the Grand Canyon, as seen from the South Rim. Frequent visitors recommend arriving at the rim an hour before sundown to fully experience a sunset at the Canyon. By Adam Schallau
The Canyon
Editor’s Note: As we begin a new year, we continue the celebration of our centennial with another classic from our archive. This month’s piece was written by Frank Waters, a prolific, award-winning…
Painting of children sitting around a fire lit by an angel is by Ted DeGrazia.
Christmas Everywhere
Cut the fruitcake, pour the sherry. Christmas comes, and it is very Queer and sweet that every nation Will pursue a celebration While the world is breaking under Such a blast of human thunder. Still…
Among the ways Arizona Highways has celebrated the Christmas season over the years is this Ed Ellinger photo from Red Rock Country. It appeared on the magazine’s back cover in December 1960.
Christmas Past
In 1956, Lawrence Clark Powell wrote an essay titled Arizona: The Wrinkled Land. Of all our contributors, he was one of the most esteemed. Among other things, he was John Steinbeck’s bibliographer…
Watercolor illustration of lone cowboy riding through barren winter landscape is by Ross Santee.
A Cowboy’s Christmas Prayer
I ain’t much good at prayin’, and You may not know me, Lord — I ain’t much seen in churches where they preach Thy Holy Word, But You may have observed me out here on the lonely plains, A-lookin’…