Culture

Keeping It Real

Officials wait at the chutes for the opening of the rodeo. “These cowboys and cowgirls use their own gear, ride their own horses and don’t compete...
National Park Service Chief of Resources and Science Bill Parker logs artifacts that were strewn from vehicles on Historic Route 66 in Petrified Forest National Park during the 1950s. The paved road no longer exists. | Jeff Kida
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Pick Of The Litter

It's easy to miss the old bed of Route 66 in Petrified Forest National Park, even though the Tawa Trail starting at the Painted Desert Visitor Center...
With the snowy San Francisco Peaks in the background, a motorist heads west on the stretch of Route 66 between Williams and Parks, likely in the 1930s or ’40s. | NORMAN G. WALLACE/ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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One For The Road

Beneath the Painted Cliffs, travelers stop at an inspection station in Lupton, just across the Arizona-New Mexico state line, in 1938. A nearly...
Master Diné silversmith Alvin Yellowhorse stands on the property of the former Ortega’s Indian Market in Lupton, with the Painted Cliffs behind him. | Joel Grimes
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Previously, on Route 66

EAST OUT OF KINGMAN, I’m swimming upstream on Historic Route 66. It’s the weekend of the Route 66 Fun Run car rally, and two-toned Bel-Airs and big-...
A massive alligator juniper marks the high point of Yeager Canyon Trail No. 28, part of the Yeager Canyon Loop. | Laurence Parent
Hiking

Yaeger Canyon Loop

Prescott National Forest Conventional wisdom suggests that any trail located a stone’s throw from a federally designated scenic road is probably...
The view east from Navajo Route 20 includes LeChee Rock, shown here at sunset. | Gary Ladd
Scenic Drives

Navajo Route 20

Navajo Nation Acrophobia is more common than you might think: According to the Cleveland Clinic, 3 to 6 percent of people have an intense fear of...
The spacious interior of a room at Ranchos de los Caballeros includes an adobe fireplace, wood beam ceilings and mirrored couches and coffee tables. | Laurence Parent
Lodging

Rancho de los Caballeros

Rancho de los Caballeros, a family-owned, luxury dude ranch sitting on 18,000 acres of pristine Sonoran Desert near Wickenburg, claims to be the perfect place to channel your inner cowboy, and the...
A flock of birds is partially obscured by clouds as it flies upwards against a blue and white backdrop. By Norma Jean Gargasz
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This Is My Story … By Norma Jean Gargasz

I made this photograph during a planned trip to Sabino Canyon. I routinely monitor the weather, and snow had been forecast overnight for the...