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Lodging

Simpson Hotel

A rooster’s staccato proclamation punctuates the murmur of white-winged doves as the Simpson Hotel rouses itself to a new day. Morning here feels a little like Old MacDonald’s Farm meets the Island...
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Dining

La Paloma Restaurant

Ask anyone from Graham or Greenlee counties about good Mexican food, and they’ll likely talk about La Paloma Restaurant.
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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...