Spartan residences line Tempe’s unpaved First Street in the 1920s. This view is looking east toward the Hayden Flour Mill and Tempe Butte, better known today as “A” Mountain. | Tempe History Museum
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Pillar of the Community

On a warm day, the grounds of the Elias-Rodriguez House in Tempe feel surprisingly cool. Surrounded by a forest of apartment buildings housing...
Gloria Martinez-Granados’ work often incorporates mesh produce bags — a nod to the artist’s heritage, and to the identity she’s worked her entire life to find. By Adriana Zehbrauskas
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It's In The Bags

Most mesh produce bags are made from polypropylene, which is known for its strength.The compound’s crystalline fibers, when woven together, can hold...
A building in Tucson's El Presidio barrio shows off a brightly-painted window frame flanked by two large light green ceramic pots housing prickly pear cactus. By Steven Meckler
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoods

The barrio is a miracle. It is wind and dust put to work. It is water poured out on a browning ice plant yesterday, bursting fuchsia tomorrow. The...
Rayenari is one of the most successful U.S. teams in escaramuza, a Mexican tradition more than 70 years old. | Adriana Zehbrauskas
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Reins Supreme

Yolanda Campos’ earliest memories are of being on horseback at age 5, when she began falling deeply in love with her family’s Mexican rodeo...
Sedona’s Devil’s Bridge Trail is characterized by views of surrounding red rocks. It’s accessed via a very rugged road. | Theresa Rose Ditson
Hiking

Devil’s Bridge Trail

There’s nothing inherently sinister about the Devil’s Bridge Trail. It’s the drive to the trailhead that’s out to get anyone who dares to cross the...
The namesake of San Francisco River Road winds through a rolling desert landscape. | Jeff Maltzman
Scenic Drives

San Francisco River Road

At Arizona Highways, we want to give you your money’s worth — which is why, for a scenic drive to become a Scenic Drive, it has to have plenty of...
Photograph of The Tuxon Hotel entrance is by Steven Meckler.
Lodging

The Tuxon Hotel

Nestled along Interstate 10 in Tucson, the property that’s now the Tuxon Hotel was built in 1969 as a traditional motor lodge. But its extensive redesign in 2020 has turned it into a destination —...
The electric greens of spring are captured in this view of Wet Beaver Creek by Derek von Briesen.
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This Is My Story … By Derek von Briesen

When I moved to Sedona two decades ago, I was a mountain biker with a 5-megapixel Nikon digital camera. I also was something of a refugee fleeing...