Lupines and other summer wildflowers grow in a meadow along the road to Point Sublime, an overlook on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The 17-mile road requires a high-clearance vehicle. LAURA ZIRINO
This Place Is Cool
The California condor seemed a windblown thing. Rising suddenly above the wall in front of Grand Canyon Lodge, huge wings spread across half the sky, it wheeled into wind, or away from it, or was…
Ringtail cat on rocks at night by Anne James
2024 Arizona Wildlife Views Photo Contest
Do you want to see your photo on the cover of Arizona Wildlife Views? Do you have a knack for capturing great photos of wildlife? Then you won’t want to miss the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s…
Low-hanging storm clouds cloak the cliffs of the Pusch Ridge Wilderness in the Santa Catalina Mountains, near Tucson. By Jack Dykinga
The Healing Power of Wilderness
There are three things that might happen if we consider wilderness a form of alchemy. One: We will be transformed by having experienced it. Two: In the stars we find there, out there in the open, our…
Snow covers a streambed in the Inner Basin of the San Francisco Peaks. “A pipeline beneath the white mantle supplies the Flagstaff reservoir,” Arizona Highways reported in 1936. By Norman G. Wallace
Monarch of the North
The rays of the rising sun bathe the mesas in golden light. They stand out sharply against the western horizon. Long gray shadows shorten to purple haze; a new day begins on the Painted Desert.  In…
Tall saguaros anchor a nighttime view of the Milky Way galaxy near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson. By Sean Parker
Midsummer Nights
Photographing Night Skies As you’ll see in this portfolio, there are several ways to photograph stars, planets and the Milky Way. Some of the images are a single exposure, others are a stitched…
The Gila River flows around a curve within the boundaries of the proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument. By David Wallace
The Great Bend Of The Gila
The Gila River sleeps in its bed southwest of metropolitan Phoenix, curled up in a long and lazy bend of dry sand, its water penned behind a series of upstream dams. This section, known as the Great…
A visitor to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park looks through a telescope during the Grand Canyon Star Party. Photograph by John Burcham.
The Dawn Of The Dark Age
When you’ve been driving for seven hours in search of a starry sky, there are a few things you don’t want to see near the end of the trip. Clouds are one of them. My wife, Jen, and I are…
A Grand Canyon motor rafting trip prepares to launch into the Colorado River at Lees Ferry. Photograph by Dawn Kish.
Preparing For Takeoff
The boats might be dories, jumbo motor rigs or modest rowing rafts, and the groups might be large or small. But one thing is constant when it comes to rafting trips through the Grand Canyon: After…