Stu and Brenden Kaner at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Seven years ago, Stuart Kaner received the August 2016 issue of Arizona Highways in the mail. The issue, which highlighted Arizona’s national parks, inspired him to take an unexpected journey with…
Photo of LeRoy DeJolie by Larry Lindahl
“LeRoy [DeJolie] is an amazing teacher. He actually teaches every minute that he is in the field. He does NOT bring his camera and tripod to do his own shooting. He is constantly giving and seeking…
Postcard: Susan Arreola Postcard Collection,  Arizona Room, Phoenix Public Library
From an East Camelback Road Airbnb, I drive to Van Buren Street in Phoenix to see Douglas Towne, a writer and preservationist with the Society for Commercial Archeology. Before freeways, Van Buren…
Photograph by Claire Curran
Laurence Parent A thunderstorm forms near Big Lake, one of the largest reservoirs in the White Mountains, at sunset. A popular boating and fishing destination, Big Lake…
Photo: ARIZONA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
Upon haphazardly throwing a bedroll, thermos, shovel and revolver into a Chrysler roadster named Betsy, author Hoffman Birney set off on an early iteration of the great American road trip in 1928.…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
The southernmost miles of the Beeline Highway are uninspiring. A miasma of power lines intersect overhead. An active mining operation hacks into the crumbling banks of the adjacent Salt River. Ragged…
Photograph by Josef Muench
I am no physician, but I do know that if anyone should come to me in need of a rest cure, I would have the name of an ideal place on the tip of my tongue.  “Go into the White Mountains of Arizona,”…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
We’d have met Sam Luce much sooner had it not been for the dogs. Two of them — part German shepherd, part redtick coonhound — began barking as soon as we pulled through the gate at the end of Luce…