Photograph: U.S. Geological Survey
A river trip through the Grand Canyon is often described as a life-changing experience. It typically lasts between seven and 18 days, and river runners are treated to breathtaking scenery, side…
Photograph by Tom Brownold
It’s before dawn when we arrive at the trailhead, so we check our packs as the sky pulls itself from the vacuum of night and warms into a violet haze.  Within minutes, and as we begin our South Rim-…
Photograph by Kerrick James
I was alone the first time I went to Monument Valley. Nearly two years ago. Late April. The day was warm, but the night cooled the way night does when the desert remembers winter.  I’d been teaching…
Photograph by Adam Schallau
Editor’s Note: The images in this portfolio are presented chronologically, based on their publication date. We love all 25 images equally. Enio Lanaro April 2014,…
Front Cover of Arizona Highways 1966 Calendar
Tennis Imes sent us a letter in 1966. It came from Santa Monica, one of many letters we’d gotten in response to our thriving newborn. “Calls are coming in,” he wrote, “from friends and family…
Illustration by Jennifer M. Potter
The Territory of Arizona had been established; the first governor and his official family had braved the hardships of the hazardous journey from Fort Larned, Kansas, and arrived safely; the governor’…
Photograph by Elisabeth Brentano
Our rental car labored through the silty, gray mud, occasionally sliding backward and spraying chunks of dirt behind us. I sat rigidly in the back seat, wide-eyed and confused. I was 8, and not only…