Guindani Trail: The Whetstone Mountains are more rugged than most. As a result, there aren’t many roads into the range. And there’s only one established trail. But one is all you need.

Sycamore Point: A scenic drive, by definition, is something that should be enjoyed along the way. And the best come with a payoff at the end. This beautiful route has both.

Mama Louisa’s: Despite its red-checkerboard tablecloths and linguine specials, this legacy restaurant in Tucson offers a modern twist as well. It’s a delicious combination of the old and the new.

Orchard Canyon on Oak Creek: With the exception of El Tovar, Phantom Ranch and Grand Canyon Lodge, there aren’t many places in Arizona with a better setting than this rustic resort in the heart of Oak Creek Canyon.

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It’s a Monday afternoon in August 2020, and rain is hitting the Black River in drops as big as bullets. Willows choke the trail that leads to the river. On the slope across the water, the grass and ferns and adolescent aspen trees drink. They drink because the summer has been viciously dry. Rain is relief to this elegiac landscape.

The ponderosa pines, however, those that line the ridge above the aspens, are nearly a decade dead. They are but some of the charred remains of the Wallow Fire, which burned more than 538,000 acres in the forests of Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico from May 29 to July 8, 2011. Still, those ponderosas drink on this day, if only because they are upright still, unfelled by the wind that carried the fire and the watery erosion that followed it.

Science tells us that fire is both an end and a beginning, that it is destructive and beautifying. Death. Rebirth. To some, fire is biblical in its stories of both rage and redemption.

There is perhaps no better illustration of this, scientifically or philosophically, than the landscape...

History

The Phoenix area's resort industry can trace some of its roots to the base of Camelback Mountain, just inside the grounds of The Phoenician in Scottsdale. That’s where a...

Nature

The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) is one of only two members of the dog family capable of climbing trees. (The other is the common raccoon dog, which is native to Asia...

Culture

FOR MOST OF MY YOUNG LIFE, I’ve traveled U.S. Route 160 to my family homestead in Teec Nos Pos...