Photograph: Northern Arizona University Cline Library
Seven Wonders of the Grand Canyon
ADA BASS 1867-1951 Ada Diefendorf Bass, a classically trained pianist born in New York in 1867, didn’t choose to be the first Anglo woman to raise a family at the…
Photograph by Kerrick James
Where Nature Meets Nurture
On a late afternoon in mid-November, the sun angles low over The Nature Conservancy’s Aravaipa Canyon guesthouse, lighting up a yellow­ing pecan tree like a flame. Below it, a dozen wild turkeys…
Photograph: U.S. Geological Survey
Birdseye View
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 Claire Curran
We Skipped to the Good Part
George H.H. Huey The Colorado River flows beneath the North Rim’s remote Toroweap Overlook at sunrise. Visitors to Toroweap must navigate a long, rugged dirt road, but…
Photograph courtesy of Museum of Northern Arizona
The Grand Master
If anyone ever died of a broken heart, it was Gunnar Widforss. The Swedish artist, dubbed “The Painter of National Parks” for his watercolors of Zion, Yosemite and Yellowstone, loved the Grand…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
Rachel Tso: On Location
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story appeared in the print edition of Arizona Highways in May 2015. Some of the details may have changed since then. In a classroom at STAR School on the southwest corner of the…
Photograph by Tom Brownold
Collecting Souvenirs
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 David Muench
The David Muench Collection
Legendary photographer David Muench’s more than seven decades of groundbreaking photography is getting a permanent home. The longtime Arizona Highways contributor — and influence for countless other…