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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2021 Grand Prize Winning Image of the Grand Canyon by Jay O'Brien
For more than a decade, Arizona Highways' annual photo contest has celebrated the work of amateur photographers from across the country as they explore Arizona's diverse landscapes, wildlife and more…
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…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
Wearing a close-fitting fleece and jeans, Loop Rawlins (pictured) leans into the trunk of his sedan at Tucson’s White Stallion Ranch. He looks like any arriving guest, car packed neatly with what…
Grandview Point at the Grand Canyon by Jack Dykinga
There’s no wrong way to spend time at the Grand Canyon. It is, after all, one of the world’s most famous natural wonders and the pride of the Grand Canyon State. The problem is that most people don’t…
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…