Photograph by Jill Richards
It's Looking Up Downtown
The first time I visited Tucson, in 1973, I stayed in a comfortable downtown hotel, interviewed for a reporting job in a downtown newsroom and went for a downtown walk with the city editor. He showed…
Illustration by Sam Ward
Who Shot First?
Klondyke’s cemetery sits high on a ridge overlooking the broad sweep of Aravaipa Canyon, about 35 miles west of Safford. Prickly pear cactuses and a handful of grave markers rise from its tall, tawny…
Photograph by Joel Grimes
Practice Makes Perfect
Look closely at Michael Chiago’s watercolors, and you might spot a small boy — he’s hatless and wears a blue shirt. The boy pops up in multiple paintings and typically appears on the edge of the…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Wet Your Appetite
Jeff Maltzman A tiered cascade flows over golden-hued rocks in Bear Canyon, part of the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains. Numerous seasonal waterfalls come to…
Photograph by Rich Rudow
When It Rains, It Pours
Editor’s Note: The disaster in Phantom Canyon is included in our book The Desert Cries by Craig Childs. It appears in two parts: an essay about the canyon, and a detailed account of the deadly flood…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Learning on the Fly
My dad ties a lot of knots.  The first time I noticed his weird habit was in the 1980s or early ’90s, when we were in my parents’ dining/knot-tying room in the house they’d rented. That mental…
Photograph by Suzanne Mathia
16th Annual Photo Contest Winners
FIRST PLACE Stan Rose Aspens at Arizona Trail, near Arizona Snowbowl   SECOND PLACE David Swanson Bald eagle, Lynx Lake   THIRD…
2024 Wildlife photo contest winning submission of a desert spiny lizard. By Randi Najac
Arizona Wildlife Views Photo Contest
One best in show and 11 winners will be showcased in the 2026 calendar, which is published as part of the November-December 2025 issue of Arizona Wildlife Views. The best-in-show photo is published…