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Camping
Tonto National Forest, Apache Junction
Just 6 miles south of the spectacular Roosevelt Dam and along the waters of Apache Lake, Burnt Corral...
Dining
There are many reasons to visit Sonoita Mercantile in Southern Arizona, but don’t go there thinking you’ll figure out Toni Enriquez’s secret fried chicken recipe.
“There is no secret,” says...
Lodging
It’s the dream that very few people can turn into reality. How do you escape the rat race to pursue a slower, more meaningful life outside the confines of a cubicle? Mark and Tammy Charlesworth found...
Lodging
In 1925, a guesthouse was built for company directors and visitors to the New Cornelia copper mine in Ajo. Newspapers reported that the house — designed by renowned Phoenix architectural firm Lescher...
Nature
If pallid bats could be kept as pets, they'd be all the rage in Arizona — despite the creepy claws, vampiric reputation and complete dearth of...
Lodging
The tiny Tonto Basin town of Young, as it looks today, could have graced the cover of Arizona Highways more than a half-century ago, and its isolation — it’s accessible only via the winding and...
Scenic Drives
Tombstone to Pearce
History can be fickle. Long after the last gunfighter was planted on Boot Hill, Tombstone survived to grow into an...
Scenic Drives
Cave Creek Ranger District, Tonto National Forest
Sheepherders never much liked the Verde River. In spring and fall, they had to swim their flocks...