pounding the road Dale Jackson runs along the road between the Hopi village of Moenkopi and Dilkon, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, during a 100-mile training relay. Shadows form in the red rock badlands (right) on the Hopi Indian Reservation. | Gary Johnson
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Rain Run

As the sky slowly lightened and the morning stars heralded the dawn, a lone figure steadily loped across the face of a…
Water pools in a side canyon of Wet Beaver Creek, located southeast of Sedona. | Mark Frank
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Waiting for Water

I’ve always liked the way a story gets spun — the way people with a belly and a heart for words veer toward one topic…
The sun rises on historic Allen Street in Tombstone, a Wild West icon known as “The Town Too Tough to Die.” | Jill Richards
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Small Towns

Map by Keith WhitneyTombstone Founded: Late 1870sCounty: CochisePopulation: 1,…
A blooming ocotillo is the key to Adam Scallau's image of the Colorado River from Whitmore Canyon Overlook on the Grand Canyon's north rim.
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This Is My Story … By Adam Schallau

I made this photograph on Day 7 of a 12-day trip across Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. I was there to…
A concrete obelisk in Bisbee marks the Continental Divide, but it’s off by more than 100 miles. The southern end of the actual Divide is in New Mexico. | Arizona Highways Archives
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Off the Mark?

The road to Bisbee follows the feet of mules. Old photographs show ore-laden wagon trains crawling over the steep…
Draped in a layer of snow, Pueblo del Arroyo’s massive stone walls stand deserted in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Early Southwestern dwellers left behind many clues that help historians understand ancient cultures. | George H.H. Huey
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Delight or Defense?

WE AMERICANS ARE, at heart, a romantic people. Give us a choice and we’ll take the mysterious over the mundane, the…
Four Canyon novices huddle inside their tent during a cold night at Mather Campground on the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. By Peter Schwepker
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Maiden Voyage

I’m on Facebook, one of many social networking Web sites, when I come across a checklist. I think, I’m from Arizona!…
Portrait of Gary Ladd with 4x5 camera against a backdrop of red rocks is by Renee Roundtree.
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Hall of Fame 2026

Gary LaddBORN 1947   Photograph by Renee Roundtree People sometimes describe a moment of…