Black and white photo of Phoenix building that is home to Arizona Highways magazine, with mid-century automobiles parked in the front lot. | Arizona Highways Archives
Our World Headquarters
In 1962, we moved from a modest building on the southeast corner of 17th Avenue and Jackson Street in Phoenix to a midcentury citadel on the western edge of Encanto Park. Because we have subscribers…
Paloverde trees and saguaro cactuses display their spring blossoms beneath rocky peaks in the Sonoran Desert. The photos accompanying this essay are from the 1940s, when the essay first appeared in Arizona Highways. | Tad Nichols
It's Spring Again
Editor’s Note: In March 1946, a few months after V-J Day, Editor Raymond Carlson made his return to our magazine. “With this issue,” he wrote, “the under-initialed returns to the editorship of…
Falling rain and a rainbow bring a dreamlike vibe to a view of Red Rock Country. Such otherworldly views may be part of the reason the Sedona area has become a destination for those seeking paranormal experiences. | Guy Schmickle
Alternative Energy?
The designated meeting spot along West Sedona’s stretch of State Route 89A couldn’t be more normal: a souvenir shop next to a gas station selling coffee mugs, cactus candy and T-shirts featuring red…
Countless lupines and a smattering of Mexican goldpoppies surround agaves, ocotillos and saguaro cactuses on the side of King’s Crown Peak, near Superior. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the peak was named by miners who felt the nearby Silver King Mine deserved a crown. By Paul Gill
Wildflowers 2025
A sego lily displays its delicate bloom along the Barnhardt Trail, a hiking route in Central Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. Found in several Western states, sego lilies…
Flame Delhi, shown during his time with the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals, didn’t last long in Major League Baseball. But his one appearance — with the Chicago White Sox in 1912 — did make him the first Arizona native to reach the big leagues. ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEITH WHITNEY
Down In Flames
Hard out of the small town of Harqua, Arizona, Flame Delhi was a natural. “Born in the heat of the alkali country,” as one newspaper rhapsodized, Delhi stood over 6 feet tall and weighed in at a…
Superstition Mountain is the title of this painting by David Swing, depicting the iconic mountain with a foreground of a dirt road through desert landscape dotted by saguaros.
The Nature Of An Artist
CORONADO TRAIL   LAKE MEAD   THE NATURAL BRIDGE   Cochise Head…
Students, teachers and other staff at a federal Indian boarding school in the Kingman area pose for a photo around 1900. | University of Southern California DIGITAL LIBRARY, California Historical Society Collection
Painful Lessons
The only things my mother heard were the sounds of children’s cries, whimpers and soft footsteps as they fled into the night and she hid in fear beneath a thin, unfamiliar white blanket. Reduced to a…
The gas-powered riverboat Aztec passes through a movable bridge at Yuma in 1902. The Aztec moved cargo on the Colorado River between Yuma and Needles, California, until 1905, when a severe sandstorm caused it to wreck a few miles downstream from Needles. | THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
Rollin' On The River
Behind the moored steamboat Gila, a bridge used by the Southern Pacific Railroad spans the Colorado River at Yuma in a photo from the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the…