Stories Archive

There’s something special about summer in Yuma. And it’s more than just the sunshine–308 days of rays annually, to be exact. Whether you’re...

When the wind stirs the cottonwoods in Havasu Canyon, it sounds as though it’s come off the ocean. Impossible, considering that it’s 543 miles to the...

Reliable water in the desert, the only such oasis for miles around, has given Pipe Spring a rich history that includes Indigenous peoples, Brigham...

                 

Summer on the Arizona Strip means the occasional promise of a dark, vast, gray sea. Monsoon storms brew in the atmosphere over the Vermilion...

For the past four years, I’ve been following the footsteps of a ghost around the canyons of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Let me explain. In...

I have klatarismenophobia.  I hadn’t heard of it, either. But it turns out there’s a name for the irrational fear of getting a flat tire...

There’s no shortage of great hikes on the North Rim: Widforss, Uncle Jim, Ken Patrick. Most, however, at least in the vicinity of Grand Canyon Lodge...