It was a warm fall day when the afternoon bell rang at T’iis Nazbas Community School. Another school day had ended. Eager to leave the classroom, I...
Hiking

The first thing that’ll come to mind when you catch your first glimpse of Mount Wrightson is: Holy moly! Or something more graphic. Your second...
Scenic Drives

Sometimes, a scenic detour isn’t one you make by choice. That was the case in 2013, when a “geological event” caused a section of U.S. Route 89 south...

It’s wildflower season in Arizona, and maybe you’re looking for a way to photograph a field of poppies and keep as many of them in focus as possible...
Lodging

Graduate Tucson isn’t an homage to Dustin Hoffman’s breakthrough film, nor is it a reference to a lesser-known Third Eye Blind single. Instead, one of Southern Arizona’s newest hotels is intended as...

A lot of small Arizona towns have qualities of bygone years: frontier days, Victorian homes. But only Duncan hurtles me into the 1960s, in the...
Dining

For years, Jim and Jean-Marie Bellington owned and operated the LazyG, a circa-1945 trailer park along Prescott’s Granite Creek. But amid day-to-day operations, the Bellingtons dreamed of opening a...