Runners compete in the 2017 Canyon de Chelly Ultra, an exclusive 55-kilometer race that takes participants to the bottom of the canyon. The annual race is capped at 150 participants. | Caitlin O'Hara
Everyone’s Running According to Plan
It’s early morning up on the Navajo Nation, the sun beginning to rise, the red-rock cliffs slanted in shadow. And Shaun Martin is there to greet the day. Martin runs each morning in tribute to the…
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
Oh, What A Night!
Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions resulting from an extreme geomagnetic storm in outer space, in which electrons…
A.E. Douglass extracts a core sample from a tree on Mount Lemmon, in the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains, in the mid-1940s. | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
Tree Cheers For Andrew Douglass
A rainy winter day in Tucson is as good as any to stay inside and explore the Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. I pull on a latex glove and pick up a bundle of spindly…
Shadows cloak the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in a sunset view from Hunts Mesa. By Larry Lindahl
High Ground
Summer wildflowers thrive on a slope on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff. The Peaks, the remains of an eroded stratovolcano, are topped by 12,633…
Lupines and other summer wildflowers grow in a meadow along the road to Point Sublime, an overlook on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The 17-mile road requires a high-clearance vehicle. LAURA ZIRINO
This Place Is Cool
The California condor seemed a windblown thing. Rising suddenly above the wall in front of Grand Canyon Lodge, huge wings spread across half the sky, it wheeled into wind, or away from it, or was…
Sunrise in the Kofa Mountains displays layered hues of yellow, orange and brown. By Joel Hazelton
Joel Hazelton: This Is My Story
There are so many incredible landscape photographers in Arizona, and because I’m an avid hiker as well as a photographer, I try to differentiate myself by getting to vantage points that other…
The research station is a small white building nestled between ponderosa pines. By John Burcham
Fort Valley Experimental Forest
Pull into the Fort Valley Experimental Forest, near Flagstaff, and you might think you’ve arrived at a sleepaway camp, not a historic facility for forestry research. A rustic compound of wood-frame…
A brightly colored rendering depicts a massive amphitheater with a flame pit, fireworks and bright lights
Vai Resort Inches Closer to Opening
VAI Resort, the most anticipated addition to Arizona's hospitality landscape, has announced TAIT as its production partner. Opening its doors in Glendale, part of metro Phoenix, in 2025, VAI Resort…