Photograph by John Burcham
Jim Andrus (pictured) has a lot of stuff. So much that it fills cabinets and rooms, display cases and counters, closet shelves and several drawers, a sprawling front yard and a porch, too. Stacks of…
A book cover for Brennen Matthews' "Miles to Go" shows a family looking out over a stretch of highways.
Brennen Matthews, the editor of ROUTE magazine, is originally from Kenya and has lived in and traveled to dozens of spectacular destinations around the world. For him, there’s one special place that…
Photograph by Jerry Jacka
Man first came to Canyon de Chelly and its tributary, Canyon del Muerto, thousands of years ago. Within this sandstone sanctuary, he found shelter, water and fertile soil in which to grow his corn.…
Photograph by Josef Muench
I am no physician, but I do know that if anyone should come to me in need of a rest cure, I would have the name of an ideal place on the tip of my tongue.  “Go into the White Mountains of Arizona,”…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
We’d have met Sam Luce much sooner had it not been for the dogs. Two of them — part German shepherd, part redtick coonhound — began barking as soon as we pulled through the gate at the end of Luce…
Courtesy Sedona Heritage Museum
Nestled between ancient sandstone walls and shaded by centuries-old sycamores, Indian Gardens is a place deeply rooted in time. The most obvious monument to its past is the weathered stone face of…
Photograph by John Burcham
Jeff Perkins came to Verde Valley School in 1955, when he was a year old and his parents were hired as teachers. For the most part, he’s been there ever since. “My sophomore year, I took a class…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
NOVEMBER Clear water rushes over small waterfalls at Slide Rock State Park in Oak Creek Canyon. The main attraction here — an 80-foot natural waterslide made slick by…