The Seven Sacred Pools, a landmark on the Soldier Pass Trail, mirror the spires of Coffeepot Rock. By Larry Lindahl
Hiking

Soldier Pass Trail

Sedona isn’t the only place nestled in the middle of Mother Nature. Flagstaff sits on the slopes of the San Francisco Peaks. Tucson is sandwiched...
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Arizona Highways Policy on Generative AI

Arizona Highways does not publish words, images or other content created or edited, in whole or in part, by generative artificial intelligence (AI)...
Toroweap Ranger Station, located near the Grand Canyon’s Toroweap Overlook on the North Rim, is one of the most remote postings in the National Park Service. The station’s buildings were built of local stone in 1935. By John Burcham
In Depth

Fringe Benefits

Green after recent monsoon rains, Toroweap Valley spreads west, toward the Uinkaret Mountains. Rabbitbrush and sunflowers splash the remote expanse,...
A saguaro heavy with fruit grows in Saguaro National Park’s Tucson Mountain District. In this area, the fruit typically ripens in late June and early July. | A saguaro heavy with fruit grows in Saguaro National Park’s Tucson Mountain District. In this area, the fruit typically ripens in late June and early July. | Bill Hatcher
Culture

With A 10-Foot Pole

At 6 p.m. on a late-June evening, it’s 102 degrees at Stella Tucker’s campsite at Saguaro National Park. A graniteware pot bubbles over a fire, the...
The aurora borealis fills the night sky over the Grand Canyon in a view from Desert View Watchtower, on the East Rim, in October 2024. Far below the rim, the Colorado River mirrors the red hues of the northern lights. | Rich Rudow
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Red Sky At Night, Photographer's Delight

Galileo named the aurora borealis, or the northern lights, in the early 17th century, honoring Aurora, Roman goddess of the dawn, and Boreas, Greek...
The Grandview Hotel, which overlooked the Canyon at the South Rim’s Grandview Point, became part of Hearst’s portfolio in 1913. | Library of Congress
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This Land Is My Land

William Randolph Hearst was a man accustomed to getting his way. Heir to a mining and ranching fortune worth hundreds of millions in today’s dollars...
Winter storm clouds clear from the Grand Canyon’s Brahma and Zoroaster temples, two of the gorge’s most recognizable landmarks. This view is from the South Rim’s Yavapai Point, just northwest of the Grand Canyon Visitor Center. By Adam Schallau
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Grand Canyon

I am the Grand Canyon. My other names are Beethoven and Wagner,  Immortal as Sorrow, deathless as Love. My solitudes are limned in...
Since 1990, Tom Myers has been practicing medicine at the Grand Canyon, a place he calls the “greatest heat lab on Earth.” And in doing so, he’s become an authority on Canyon wilderness medicine. By John Burcham
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What the Doctor Ordered

When Tom Myers was in the final months of an internal medicine internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix in the late 1980s, he feared he’d made...