Photo: ARIZONA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
Upon haphazardly throwing a bedroll, thermos, shovel and revolver into a Chrysler roadster named Betsy, author Hoffman Birney set off on an early iteration of the great American road trip in 1928.…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
The southernmost miles of the Beeline Highway are uninspiring. A miasma of power lines intersect overhead. An active mining operation hacks into the crumbling banks of the adjacent Salt River. Ragged…
Photograph by Jack Jordan
JK: What is Camp Courage, and how did you get involved? JJ: Camp Courage is the Arizona Burn Foundation’s annual camp in the Prescott area for children and teenagers who are burn survivors. The camp…
Photograph by John Burcham
Jim Andrus (pictured) has a lot of stuff. So much that it fills cabinets and rooms, display cases and counters, closet shelves and several drawers, a sprawling front yard and a porch, too. Stacks of…
A book cover for Brennen Matthews' "Miles to Go" shows a family looking out over a stretch of highways.
Brennen Matthews, the editor of ROUTE magazine, is originally from Kenya and has lived in and traveled to dozens of spectacular destinations around the world. For him, there’s one special place that…
Photograph by Jerry Jacka
Man first came to Canyon de Chelly and its tributary, Canyon del Muerto, thousands of years ago. Within this sandstone sanctuary, he found shelter, water and fertile soil in which to grow his corn.…
Photograph by Josef Muench
I am no physician, but I do know that if anyone should come to me in need of a rest cure, I would have the name of an ideal place on the tip of my tongue.  “Go into the White Mountains of Arizona,”…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
We’d have met Sam Luce much sooner had it not been for the dogs. Two of them — part German shepherd, part redtick coonhound — began barking as soon as we pulled through the gate at the end of Luce…