Red and yellow hues feature prominently in this colorful deep space photograph by Ken Naiff.
Ken Naiff: This Is My Story
I’ve been interested in astronomy all my life. Growing up in the United Kingdom, I had a small telescope, and I remember running to tell my parents that I had seen Sputnik 1 passing over us. But…
Jerry Ostwinkle offers a treat to a golden eagle approaching to perch on his arm. By Bruce D. Taubert
Golden Eagle Hack Site
Beneath the Dragoon Mountains, down a primitive forest road lined with pistachio trees and scattered homesteads, sits the 40-acre Cochise Stronghold Ranch. There, Kalen Pearson, an Arizona Raptor…
A black and white image shows two people, a woman and a man, in shadow at a dining table within the interior of the Westward Ho hotel in downtown Phoenix. The pair looks out onto a busy swimming pool, surrounded by striped sunbrellas.
The Westward Ho: A Rich History
Bill Barry’s heart has always been in Phoenix — even during the rare times when the rest of him wasn’t. And Phoenix is in him, from his sun-kissed skin to his hat with a picture of a cactus taped to…
This painterly photograph by Esther Henderson shows autumn foliage and cloudy blue skies reflected in a lake with mountains in the background..
One Hundred Years: Photography
Norman G. Wallace Photographed: Early 1930s Norman G. Wallace wasn’t a photographer by trade, but in his decades of work for what later became the Arizona Department of…
Arizona Highways Hall of Fame
                  Like every great magazine, Arizona Highways measures up because of the incredible men and women on our masthead. But we couldn’t do what we do without…
In this composite image, Hohokam rock art is illuminated against a Milky Way backdrop in Southern Arizona’s Picacho Mountains. The long swath of dots may symbolize the universe, along with other sky objects and serpents, which are thought to represent prayers being carried to the gods. | Frank Zullo
It Was a Dark Night...
Frank Zullo has a flair for the dramatic. He’s a photog­rapher by trade, which is pretty normal. But otherwise, he’s out there — a cross between Galileo and Indiana Jones. As you’ll see, Zullo is…
Unobstructed views stretch to the horizon from Monte Vista Peak in Southeastern Arizona’s Chiricahua Wilderness, where the highest point is 9,759 feet atop Chiricahua Peak. By David Muench
Desert Islands
Some places have water. Whole parts of the country leak from every pore and crack in the ground. Think of New Hampshire or the Pacific Northwest, where each little town has a glimmering river or…
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
Letters
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,…