A guest at the Tucson area’s Flying V Ranch examines  a saguaro blossom during a guided horseback ride in the  mid-20th century.  Arizona Historical  Society/Restoration by Richard Jackson
June 1939Boulder Dam and Lake Mead In your April issue, we were particularly interested in the article Sailing on Lake Mead. It seems that a little piece on the Boulder Dam recreational area,…
Raymond Carlson (left) helps move furniture from our first office.
It was a good year. Nineteen twenty-five. The Great Gatsby hit bookshelves, the Grand Ole Opry transmitted its first radio signal, and Leica marketed the world’s first 35 mm camera. In the world of…
Black and white photo of Phoenix building that is home to Arizona Highways magazine, with mid-century automobiles parked in the front lot. | Arizona Highways Archives
In 1962, we moved from a modest building on the southeast corner of 17th Avenue and Jackson Street in Phoenix to a midcentury citadel on the western edge of Encanto Park. Because we have subscribers…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposed rule…
Revelers enjoy live music at a wine tasting event
CORNVILLE, Ariz. – DA Ranch Estate Vineyards is uncorking the excitement once again with the return of the SIP! Experience—a wine-fueled, music-filled, flavor-packed festival you didn’t know you…
Karen Pugliesi, writer Annette McGivney and McGivney’s son, Austin, hike out of the Hellsgate Wilderness along Hellsgate Trail 37. By Elias Butler
There were plenty of sensible reasons to not go backpacking in Hellsgate Wilderness. For starters, the name raised suspicions that it could be a Godforsaken place. And then there was the fact that…
Paloverde trees and saguaro cactuses display their spring blossoms beneath rocky peaks in the Sonoran Desert. The photos accompanying this essay are from the 1940s, when the essay first appeared in Arizona Highways. | Tad Nichols
Editor’s Note: In March 1946, a few months after V-J Day, Editor Raymond Carlson made his return to our magazine. “With this issue,” he wrote, “the under-initialed returns to the editorship of…