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Standing just outside Saguaro National Park East, Nick Shipley and I take in the pale, jigsaw-puzzle trunks of sycamores towering all around us....

           

This morning, I walked through a grove of winter aspens. Bare branches offered no shimmering summer green, no quivering, iridescent autumn gold. But...

Most visitors to Mingus Mountain, one of Central Arizona’s best-known landmarks, travel a paved, winding road from State Route 89A to the top of the...

“The Rim,” Raymond Carlson wrote in the April 1966 issue of Arizona Highways, “is scenery, history, virgin wilderness, so rough only small portions...

“From the texts of the early writers to that of contemporaries, from the temples of the Mediterranean Sea to the fanciful designs of coats of arms,...

Above: Darwin Van Campen’s photograph from Point Imperial on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim was made with a 4x5 camera and published in the May 1972...