Southern Scenic Drives

Willow Springs Road

We hear it a lot: “Why do so many of the scenic drives in Arizona Highways require a high-clearance vehicle?” It isn’t by design. But there are only…
Southern Scenic Drives

Mission Road

War and peace. They’re more than the title of the Leo Tolstoy novel everyone falsely claims to have read. They’re also the two basic states of human…
Central Scenic Drives

A-Cross Road

For a reservoir that once was among the world’s largest, Theodore Roosevelt Lake doesn’t get a ton of attention — possibly because it’s been…
Western Scenic Drives

Hualapai Mountain Road

Northwestern Arizona isn’t widely known for fall color, but this part of the state has its share of high country — including the Hualapai Mountains,…
Northern Scenic Drives

Crazy Jug Point

When you’re trekking to some attractions on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim — from Bright Angel Point, an easy quarter-mile walk from Grand Canyon Lodge…
Eastern Scenic Drives

Upper Eagle Creek Road

There’s so much to see along the Coronado Trail — the steep, twisting 120-mile jaunt between the Eastern Arizona towns of Springerville and Clifton…
Central Scenic Drives

Thumb Butte Loop

“Directly west of the town of Prescott, [Arizona Territory], this solitary butte shows conspicuously, rising its head from a sea of pines, a monarch…
Eastern Scenic Drives

Forest Road 61

There’s so much natural beauty in the White Mountains that it’s easy to overlook the reminders of pioneer life also on display in this part of…