Photograph by Claire Curran
The Big Chill
Soft winter light graces Isis Temple as a storm clears from the Canyon. This view is from the Rim Trail, a mostly paved, 13-mile route that runs from the South Kaibab…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Beyond Words
Editor’s Note: This essay is the first contribution to Arizona Highways by Tom Zoellner, whom The New York Times calls “a beautiful writer, a superb reporter and a deep thinker.” It’s adapted from…
Illustration by Sam Ward
To The Batcave!!!
On a scouting expedition in 2007, Jason Ballensky spotted a cave entrance in a remote area of Grand Canyon National Park. It looked big. An experienced caver, Ballensky was working under a…
Photograph by John Burcham
I Am Not A Visitor
Kelkiyana Yazzie was in fourth grade when her teacher took her class on a field trip to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. No one mentioned that this was historically Native land — that this land and…
Photograph by Bill Ferris
Wildlife Photo Contest Winners
Lee Scherer, Marana American pronghorn   Isabel Guerra Clark, Phoenix Desert bighorn sheep   Sue Welter…
Painting by "Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia
Christmas Fantasies
Ted DeGrazia has been called both a genius and a madman. He wasn’t the only one. Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin and Michelangelo were all thought to be teetering somewhere on the spectrum between genius…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Out In The Cold
A seasonal tributary of Lynx Creek, in the Prescott National Forest, flows through a snow-blanketed landscape as it mirrors tall ponderosa pines and the colors of sunset…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Do You Believe in Magic?
Peace. Joy. Light. Magic. Snow, if you’re lucky. No snow, if that’s your definition of “lucky.” My mother taught me Christmas was about love. But once — hearing sleigh bells, then rushing from my bed…