RIGHT: The Lower Cliff Dwelling at Tonto National Monument is the ruin most accessible to visitors. | Laurence Parent
Tonto National Monument Also a cultural melting pot, the site now known as Tonto National Monument was one of the most densely occupied areas for the Salado people, who lived in the Tonto Basin…
Photo by Larry Lindahl
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Year Designated: 1972Area: 1.25 million acres (Arizona and Utah)Wilderness Acreage: None; however, 588,855 acres have been proposed as the Glen Canyon Wilderness…
What remains of a Sinaguan cliff dwelling clings to the canyon wall at Walnut Canyon National Monument. This view is from the Island Trail, which traverses another set of ruins. | Tom Bean
The memories are starting to chip a little. Like nail polish on fingers that have plunged too many times into the dishwater or planted too many things into too-hard layers of earth. I do remember,…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
In October 1775, as a nascent United States was breaking away from Great Britain on America’s East Coast, Juan Bautista de Anza and a party of some 240 Spanish colonists began a 1,200-mile journey…
Photo by Sean Parker
JK: How did this photograph come together? SP: I shot this in the Gila Bend area on an August evening last year. I was storm-chasing and looking for haboobs, which are large dust storms that happen…
Photo by Suzanne Mathia
Q. I was told many years ago, by a photography student and friend of mine, that a 50/50 sky-to-land ratio in landscape photographs was considered bad composition. I haven’t seen this advice anywhere…
Photo by Jeff Kida
Before I became an editor at the magazine, I’d shoot photo stories for Arizona Highways. I wasn’t a “scenic” shooter. Instead, I gravitated toward those stories that involved people and lifestyles.…
Rainbow Bridge
Audio file "I’ve experienced it by boat and by land. And personally, there’s more reverence in being able to do it on foot. [When] you go by boat, you miss…