Petroglyphs carved by the Sinaguan people adorn the sandstone walls of the V-Bar-V Heritage Site. | David Muench
Culture

Writing on the Walls

A single dried blade of grass floats down Beaver Creek. Clear, mirror-still water reflects cottonwoods along the far bank, and displays moss-covered...
Photograph by Joel Grimes
In Depth

It's Time You Got to Know Jack

Jack Dykinga scared the hell out of me. I grew up in a three-newspaper household in a four-newspaper town. Maybe I didn’t pay quite as much...
Author Melani Martinez spent more than 20 years writing her memoir, The Molino. She’s photographed here in what once was her family’s molino, tortilleria and café. | Steven Meckler
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The Story of Her Life

Ritual transforms dried corn kernels into masa. First, in a process known as nixtamalization, the kernels are soaked and cooked in an alkaline...
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
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Back Where They Belong

The soft earth embraces your grief. As you stand before your cherished one, you lay them to rest, holding their memory close despite the...
Oaks, junipers and ocotillos populate the rolling foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, the morning after a heavy monsoon storm. Home to biodiverse Madera Canyon and a Smithsonian Institution observatory, the Santa Ritas are one of Southern Arizona’s many “sky island” ranges. | Joel Hazelton
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Southern Exposures

Evergreens thrive in the Huachuca Mountains, near Sierra Vista, in a view from the Crest Trail. This hiking route, which begins at Coronado...
Late-afternoon light illuminates the Ajo Range, saguaros and one of the namesakes of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. | George Stocking
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Editor’s Note: Although we’re best known for our photography, we’ve also featured some wonderful writers in the past 100 years, including Joyce...
Cochise Head looms over the hoodoos along Chiricahua National Monument’s Heart of Rocks Loop at sunset. | Laurence Parent
Hiking

Heart of Rocks Loop

The Apaches called them “standing-up rocks.” Today, people call them hoodoos or pinnacles or the most amazing rock formations they’ve ever seen. Any...
The Tse’nikani Scenic Road, a stretch of U.S. Route 191, curves through the expansive landscape of the Navajo Nation. By John Burcham
Scenic Drives

Tse’nikani Scenic Road

There’s plenty to see on the Navajo Nation, and that generally means doing plenty of driving. That’s to be expected, given that the tribe’s land...