pounding the road Dale Jackson runs along the road between the Hopi village of Moenkopi and Dilkon, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, during a 100-mile training relay. Shadows form in the red rock badlands (right) on the Hopi Indian Reservation. | Gary Johnson
Rain Run
As the sky slowly lightened and the morning stars heralded the dawn, a lone figure steadily loped across the face of a windswept mesa in the heart of the Hopi Indian homeland. Fleet of foot and…
Water pools in a side canyon of Wet Beaver Creek, located southeast of Sedona. | Mark Frank
Waiting for Water
I’ve always liked the way a story gets spun — the way people with a belly and a heart for words veer toward one topic or another or a whole handful of them in a single piece of writing. For reasons…
The sun rises on historic Allen Street in Tombstone, a Wild West icon known as “The Town Too Tough to Die.” | Jill Richards
Small Towns
Map by Keith WhitneyTombstone Founded: Late 1870sCounty: CochisePopulation: 1,308Elevation: 4,406 feetHigh School Mascot: Yellow Jackets…
A blooming ocotillo is the key to Adam Scallau's image of the Colorado River from Whitmore Canyon Overlook on the Grand Canyon's north rim.
This Is My Story … By Adam Schallau
I made this photograph on Day 7 of a 12-day trip across Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. I was there to explore and photograph some of the lesser-visited locations along the Grand Wash…
A concrete obelisk in Bisbee marks the Continental Divide, but it’s off by more than 100 miles. The southern end of the actual Divide is in New Mexico. | Arizona Highways Archives
Off the Mark?
The road to Bisbee follows the feet of mules. Old photographs show ore-laden wagon trains crawling over the steep mountain pass. In the 1880s, mule skinners had to pause at the top to pay a toll (10…
Draped in a layer of snow, Pueblo del Arroyo’s massive stone walls stand deserted in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Early Southwestern dwellers left behind many clues that help historians understand ancient cultures. | George H.H. Huey
Delight or Defense?
WE AMERICANS ARE, at heart, a romantic people. Give us a choice and we’ll take the mysterious over the mundane, the poetic over the pragmatic. And why not? Life is more interesting in the realm of…
Four Canyon novices huddle inside their tent during a cold night at Mather Campground on the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. By Peter Schwepker
Maiden Voyage
I’m on Facebook, one of many social networking Web sites, when I come across a checklist. I think, I’m from Arizona! and open the page. The list includes things such as: “You have no idea why 48…
Portrait of Gary Ladd with 4x5 camera against a backdrop of red rocks is by Renee Roundtree.
Hall of Fame 2026
Gary LaddBORN 1947   Photograph by Renee Roundtree People sometimes describe a moment of clarity descending like a bolt of lightning. Gary Ladd’s was more literal — and…