Nature

If you’re afraid of scorpions, you can thank Western banded geckos for making sure the population doesn’t get out of hand. In addition to foraging at...
Nature

Most Arizonans will recognize the buzz that rises from trees in late spring and early summer — the call of the cicadas. Apache cicadas, scientific...
Hiking

White Mountains, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests ‘‘A saturated meadow, sun-shaped and jewel-small; a circle scarcely wider, than the trees...
Scenic Drives

Kaibab Plateau, Kaibab National Forest If you’re wondering where Mother Nature spends her summers, this is it. The Grand Canyon, the vast meadows...
Lodging

For some, “off the grid” is a buzzword. For Rennie and Andrea Radoccia, it’s a way of life. In 1984, the couple bought a plot of land at the mouth of Mescal Canyon, far from municipal power and water...
Dining

If life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans, Nancy McCulla’s life is Simply Delicious. McCulla came to Flagstaff in the early 1980s to study ceramics at Northern Arizona...
Scenic Drives

Prescott National Forest, Prescott Walk around Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza and you’ll immediately discover that there’s always something happening...
Lodging

The baseball-bat-shaped swimming pool says a lot about the Francisco Grande Hotel and Golf Resort. The hotel is named for the San Francisco Giants, who played and trained on the grounds in the 1960s...