Photograph by Steven Meckler
A Very, Very, Very Fine House
From the street, this vintage Tucson house is typical of its era: low-slung, rustic in style and sporting an inviting porch that runs the entire length of its front façade. It’s not necessarily…
Photograph by Larry Lindahl
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
LAURENCE PARENT Ragged Top rises from a sea of saguaro cactuses at Ironwood Forest National Monument, northwest of Tucson. The rhyolite peak, a popular climbing…
Photograph by Jeff Kida
We'll Let You In On A Little Secret
Reliable water in the desert, the only such oasis for miles around, has given Pipe Spring a rich history that includes Indigenous peoples, Brigham Young and John Wesley Powell. The presence of…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Heading North for the Summer
North Rim ferns thrive amid aspen trunks in an intimate view of the forest floor. The North Rim averages nearly 26 inches of moisture per year, allowing plants such as…
Photograph by John Burcham
The Resurrection of Colorado City
A road sign marks the entrance to Colorado City on State Route 389.Summer on the Arizona Strip means the occasional promise of a dark, vast, gray sea. Monsoon storms…
photographs courtesy of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Worshipping the Ground He Walked On
For the past four years, I’ve been following the footsteps of a ghost around the canyons of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Let me explain. In 1919, Charles L. Bernheimer, a cotton-goods…
Photograph by Rich Rudow
Parashant: It’s Easier Said Than Done
I have klatarismenophobia.  I hadn’t heard of it, either. But it turns out there’s a name for the irrational fear of getting a flat tire. For me, the roots aren’t hard to trace: In the summer of…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Ancient Runes?
In the high-desert grasslands of South-eastern Arizona, a fertile wine country gives way to a small range of low-coned mountains near the tiny community of Elgin. It is here, in the unpretentious…