Stories Archive

The glow of the stars begins to soften as the navy sky of dawn slowly spreads above the South Rim. Sleepy-eyed visitors emerge from their beds,...

Editor’s Note: “In 1940, I fulfilled a lifetime ambition,” Barry Goldwater wrote in his book Delightful Journey. He was referring to a trip down...

Douglas Miles is busy. In the space of a few weeks, he’scrisscrossed the country to paint a mural in Cincinnati and flown to the University of...

There is a pleasant tinkling of metals, frequently interspersed with soft-spoken Hopi conversation, as a small group of ex-servicemen moves about the...

Smoke from a controlled burn on Observatory Mesa drifts across Flagstaff, and the faint whiff of burning wood works its way through the tall, narrow...

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...

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...

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...