A building thunderstorm looms over the Kendrick Trail, in the Kaibab National Forest. | Laurence Parent
Hiking

Kendrick Trail

Kaibab National Forest On May 24, 2000, Mother Nature tossed a bolt of lightning at a ponderosa pine on the southwest side of Kendrick Peak. That...
Sunrise paints a meadow along Forest Road 249, or Three Forks Road, which is part of the Nutrioso Loop drive in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona. | Rusty Childress
Scenic Drives

Nutrioso Loop

Nutrioso Loop White Mountains Nutria and oso are Spanish for “otter” and “bear,” respectively. But there aren’t any otters around the community...
Photo of Sycamore Cabin in late afternoon light is by Laurence Parent
Lodging

Sycamore Cabin

With every mile driven southeast on Forest Road 68 (Dugas Road), the scenery becomes more remote and beautiful. The buzz of Interstate 17 is replaced by an expansive prairie that eventually...
This 12-shot stitched panoramic image of the Wave in North Coyote Buttes, near the Arizona state line with Utah, was captured by Shane McDermott
Photo Editor Forum

This Is My Story … By Shane McDermott

This is a 12-shot stitched panoramic image of the Wave in North Coyote Buttes, near the Arizona state line with Utah. I captured the image during a...
Photograph of man crouching on a rock in the desert blowing into a didgeridoo is by Steven Meckler

Desert Mountain Didgeridoos

Photograph of a convergent lady beetle mass is by Bruce D. Taubert
Nature

Convergent Lady Beetles

Commonly called ladybugs, convergent lady beetles (Hippodamia convergens) live in a variety of habitats across Arizona, including grasslands and...
Photograph of lobster tail and steak with asparagus at The Copper Note is by Karen Shell
Dining

The Copper Note

When Michele and Stephen Sullins first laid eyes on an airy, light-filled space on the top floor of the historic Burmister Building, they just knew. 
The Portage Lake Mine, near Bisbee, is shown in the early 1900s, around the time of Robert Warner’s rescue of two miners there. | Graeme Collectione
History

Robert Warner, Hero of Bisbee

Mining has never been for the fainthearted, but these days, it’s safer than it was in the early 1900s, when errant blasts and cave-ins ended many...