Photograph by Suzanne Mathia
Arizona Highways is proud to partner with the Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo on an exhibit titled The Glory of Nature’s Form, which features nearly 50 images from some of our most…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Aravaipa Canyon Paul Gill Mature cottonwoods display their fall yellows amid tall saguaros along Aravaipa Creek. The canyon is the centerpiece of the Aravaipa Canyon…
Photograph by Elisabeth Brentano
I was cruising along State Route 286, about 15 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, when I first recognized Waw Kiwulik, more commonly known as Baboquivari Peak. According to the Tohono O’odham people…
Photograph by John Annerino
For more than 25 years, John Annerino has photographed and explored the hidden wonders of the Southwest. His passion for photography evolved from guiding students and clients on “wilderness journeys…
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Bright Angel Creek flows past autumn-hued cottonwoods at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, as viewed from a footbridge that spans the creek. | Amy S. Martin
THE LAST REMAINING LEAVES on the Fremont cottonwood hold the sun as it slips through a notch in the Grand Canyon’s southern wall. Trunks and limbs, near-naked in the chill of late afternoon, lay…
David Roberts
The Navajos called them “Anasazi.” And, for seven decades, so did archaeologists. But, in the 1990s, a new generation of politically correct scholars proposed the term “Ancestral Puebloans,” and it…
A young organ pipe cactus grows amid saguaros and ocotillos in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s Alamo Canyon. | Paul Gill
When European immigrants ventured into the southwest corner of Arizona Territory in the late 19th century, they considered the Sonoran Desert a barren wasteland and saw little of value except the…