Photograph by Joel Grimes
In Depth

It's Time You Got to Know Jack

Jack Dykinga scared the hell out of me. I grew up in a three-newspaper household in a four-newspaper town. Maybe I didn’t pay quite as much...
Cochise Head looms over the hoodoos along Chiricahua National Monument’s Heart of Rocks Loop at sunset. | Laurence Parent
Hiking

Heart of Rocks Loop

The Apaches called them “standing-up rocks.” Today, people call them hoodoos or pinnacles or the most amazing rock formations they’ve ever seen. Any...
The Tse’nikani Scenic Road, a stretch of U.S. Route 191, curves through the expansive landscape of the Navajo Nation. By John Burcham
Scenic Drives

Tse’nikani Scenic Road

There’s plenty to see on the Navajo Nation, and that generally means doing plenty of driving. That’s to be expected, given that the tribe’s land...
The intimate interior of a room at Kull features a poster bed, wooden floors and a separate sitting room. By John Burcham
Lodging

The Kull White Mountain B&B

In the summer of 2020, as the world was adjusting to the pandemic, Janet and Greg Kull came across a house for sale in the White Mountains. They aren’t sure why they felt compelled to buy the...
Red and yellow hues feature prominently in this colorful deep space photograph by Ken Naiff.
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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...
Kassi Rahman, pictured with her daughter, Piper, enjoy one of many flavors of jams. By Paul Markow

Desert Jam Co.

Jerry Ostwinkle offers a treat to a golden eagle approaching to perch on his arm. By Bruce D. Taubert
Around Arizona

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...
A green salad garnished with cucumbers, guacamole, tuna salad, bread and dressing is the centerpiece of assorted plates that include avocado toast and beans. By Dawn Kish
Dining

ChocolaTree

When Jen Marie Warr visited Sedona in 2006, she had no intention of staying — she was picking up a van she’d bought from a friend for planned cross-country travels. But the van needed repairs, so she...