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Lodging

Rincon Creek Ranch

The sun wakes the desert gently. Despite a triple-digit forecast, the emerging sun feels mild, backlighting the fat arms of monsoon-fed ocotillos and giving the rounded tops of paloverdes a soft,...
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Dining

Grapes

Grapes is appropriately named. For a place that revolves around wine, that might seem obvious. But just like its namesake, this Jerome restaurant took a while to achieve its final form. “Before this...
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Hiking

Juniper Springs Trail

Prescott National Forest, Prescott The origin of the word “wilderness” is wildeornes, which comes from wild deor (“wild deer” + ness). In a...
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Scenic Drives

Middlemarch Road

Dragoon Mountains, Tombstone The O.K. Corral. The Bird Cage Theatre. Gunfight re-enactments. When it comes to Wild West history, Tombstone has...
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Lodging

The Inn at Castle Rock

Owner Chris Brown jokes that the Inn at Castle Rock is the only hotel in Bisbee with a moat. He’s referring to the cement aqueduct Bisbee residents built to channel the floodwaters that ripped...
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Dining

Big Earl's Greasy Eats

If you roll into Big Earl’s Greasy Eats, Cave Creek’s vintage-style diner, you might be filling up with a mushroom-Swiss burger, some sweet-potato fries and a pesto Caesar salad, or perhaps indulging...
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Hiking

Pumphouse Wash

Coconino National Forest, Sedona Two point nine miles. That’s what separates two of the most disparate hiking experiences in Arizona. On one end...
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Scenic Drives

San Francisco Peaks Loop

Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff By the first or second weekend in October, aspen stands on the San Francisco Peaks are golden and glorious....