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Scenic Drives

Tripp Canyon Road

Pinaleño Mountains, Safford Some drives — the ones with long, straight stretches of smooth asphalt — are good to do solo. On those routes, it’s...
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Hiking

Secret Mountain Trail

Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff It’s not a big secret. Not anymore. But back in the 1870s, a Mormon family figured that Secret Mountain was...
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Lodging

The Shady Dell

The Twilight Zone premiered in 1959. So did Bonanza and Rawhide. Marilyn Monroe starred in Some Like It Hot that year, too. Alaska was admitted to the union. Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. In...
Photograph by John Burcham
Dining

Augie's

Restaurant critics and foodies regularly mourn the passing of great restaurants. For Augie Perry, it’s personal. So is his latest restaurant in Prescott. Perry put a lot of himself into Augie’s,...
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Hiking

Joe's Canyon Trail

Coronado National Memorial, near Benson Coronado National Memorial isn’t the smallest national park in the state, but compared with some of the...
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Scenic Drives

Chevelon Canyon Lake

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, Mogollon Rim Sometime in the 1800s, the story goes, a trapper and scout by the name of Chevelon found himself...
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Dining

The Toasted Owl

The three things Cecily Maniaci says she loves most in life are owls, food and vintage furniture. She used to joke with friends that her dream was to run a business somehow involving all three...
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Hiking

Walnut Canyon Trail

Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff If you do a Google search for “how long is the Arizona Trail,” you won’t find an exact number. Not without...