Photograph courtesy of Museum of Northern Arizona
The Grand Master
If anyone ever died of a broken heart, it was Gunnar Widforss. The Swedish artist, dubbed “The Painter of National Parks” for his watercolors of Zion, Yosemite and Yellowstone, loved the Grand…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
Rachel Tso: On Location
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story appeared in the print edition of Arizona Highways in May 2015. Some of the details may have changed since then. In a classroom at STAR School on the southwest corner of the…
Photograph by Tom Brownold
Collecting Souvenirs
It’s before dawn when we arrive at the trailhead, so we check our packs as the sky pulls itself from the vacuum of night and warms into a violet haze.  Within minutes, and as we begin our South Rim-…
Photograph by David Muench
The David Muench Collection
Legendary photographer David Muench’s more than seven decades of groundbreaking photography is getting a permanent home. The longtime Arizona Highways contributor — and influence for countless other…
Photograph by John Burcham
Olivia Benally
Wednesday is deadline day at the Navajo Times, and at the weekly newspaper’s headquarters in the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Olivia Benally is taking a break from answering emails and…
Photograph by Brad Armstrong
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater looks positively blissful. It’s the summer of 1940, and 31-year-old Barry is deep into a journey along the Colorado River that will make him just the 73rd person to travel through the…
Photograph by Joseph Muench
Valley of the Monuments
It was dawn in Monument Valley. From out of utter darkness, as still as it was complete, was born a sight never to be erased from the colored slides that our memory holds sacred. As a pale light…
Photograph by Kerrick James
The Changeable Earth
I was alone the first time I went to Monument Valley. Nearly two years ago. Late April. The day was warm, but the night cooled the way night does when the desert remembers winter.  I’d been teaching…