Dining

Dine at downtown Tucson’s Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink, and you’ll be tucking into the creamy polenta with wild mushrooms, a speck-and-egg pizza made with a tender-crispy crust, or maybe the citrus...
Hiking

Prescott National Forest There are 90 wilderness areas in Arizona. And within their boundaries are 4.5 million acres of “earth untrammeled by man...
Nature

Aptly named, spadefoot toads spend the majority of the year in underground burrows they dig with their hind legs and bony, shovel-like feet. Four...
Scenic Drives

Coconino National Forest, Sedona There’s a lot to do in Oak Creek Canyon, but beyond the resorts, hikes, campgrounds and other recreation spots,...
Hiking

Coconino National Forest, Sedona Had he gotten there a little sooner, Jim Thompson might have spent his days nibblin’ on sponge cake and watchin’...
Lodging

Rande Wolters spent 25 years of his life on the road, working for rock bands and living in hotels. After he left that line of work, he says, “I wanted something that was totally different.” In...
Nature

As tadpoles are to toads, water dogs are to tiger salamanders: the fully aquatic larval form of the species. When water dogs metamorphose into adult...
Hiking

Mogollon Rim, Coconino National Forest It’s dangerous to dole out superlatives when writing about hikes in Arizona. As soon as you do, you’ll...