Runners compete in the 2017 Canyon de Chelly Ultra, an exclusive 55-kilometer race that takes participants to the bottom of the canyon. The annual race is capped at 150 participants. | Caitlin O'Hara
Culture

Everyone’s Running According to Plan

It’s early morning up on the Navajo Nation, the sun beginning to rise, the red-rock cliffs slanted in shadow. And Shaun Martin is there to greet the...
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
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Oh, What A Night!

Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions resulting from an extreme...
A.E. Douglass extracts a core sample from a tree on Mount Lemmon, in the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains, in the mid-1940s. | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
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Tree Cheers For Andrew Douglass

A rainy winter day in Tucson is as good as any to stay inside and explore the Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. I pull...
Shadows cloak the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in a sunset view from Hunts Mesa. By Larry Lindahl
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High Ground

Summer wildflowers thrive on a slope on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff. The Peaks, the remains of an eroded...
Lupines and other summer wildflowers grow in a meadow along the road to Point Sublime, an overlook on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The 17-mile road requires a high-clearance vehicle. LAURA ZIRINO
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This Place Is Cool

The California condor seemed a windblown thing. Rising suddenly above the wall in front of Grand Canyon Lodge, huge wings spread across half the sky...
The calm water of East Clear Creek mirrors trees along the Kinder Crossing Trail. By Rebecca Wilks
Hiking

Kinder Crossing Trail

In German, kinder means “children.” It’s one of the root words in “kindergarten,” which translates to “children’s garden.” Although this hike is...
Eagle Creek flows through one of several riparian areas along Upper Eagle Creek Road. By Paul Gill
Scenic Drives

Upper Eagle Creek Road

There’s so much to see along the Coronado Trail — the steep, twisting 120-mile jaunt between the Eastern Arizona towns of Springerville and Clifton...
A room at the Grand Highland Hotel with view of bathroom and outside hallway. By Laurence Parent
Lodging

The Grand Highland Hotel

The Grand Highland Hotel is like a time capsule for Prescott and Whiskey Row — one that dates to the early 1900s, when the original hotel building was a saloon and brothel. In 1949, the first floor...