Photograph by Eirini Pajak
EDITOR'S NOTE: As of June 2024, Ruby is no longer open to the public. This story was published in an earlier issue of Arizona Highways. TAWNY HILLSIDES covered in tall grasses and dusty green…
Tim Trumble Photography/Arizona Opera
In 2016, Russian-born tenor Viktor Antipenko and Israeli-born mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani met while performing Georges Bizet’s Carmen at Opera Las Vegas. As classically trained opera singers with…
Scott Sixkiller Sinquah (Gila River Pima/Hopi), 2020 Adult World Champion. Photo: Heard Museum, Platt Photography
The Heard Museum’s World Championship Hoop Dance Contest is rescheduled for March 26 and 27, 2022. Save the date for this Valley-favorite event when the top American Indian and Canadian First Nations…
Two Navajo Women on Horseback at John Ford Point
This story was first published in the September 1981 issue of Arizona Highways.  HE’S KNOWN WORLDWIDE for his landscape photography. But hardly anyone knows about the role Josef Muench and his…
Jeffrey Cook House
In the early 2000s, architect Jeffrey Cook wrote a piece he hoped would be published in Arizona Highways. In it, he compared his Paradise Valley home, completed in 1970, to a nearby Frank Lloyd…
A watercolor painting by Ann Axtell Morris
A procession of life-size orange pronghorns leaps across a sandstone wall shaded from the harsh  summer light. Painted by Navajo and Jemez Pueblo artist Dibe Yazhi, or “Little Lamb,” in Canyon del…
Photograph by Gene Morris
The first picture of Grand Canyon I saw as a small boy was a photographic card inserted into our family stereopticon. It evoked from me the clamor of every boy for the Big Adventure of those days: a…
Photograph by Jeff Kida
TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT. Every month, we showcase the most talented photographers in the world. Now it's your turn to join the ranks. Enter your favorite photo in the 2026 Arizona Highways Photo Contest…