The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species...

CORNVILLE, Ariz. – DA Ranch Estate Vineyards is uncorking the excitement once again with the return of the SIP! Experience—a wine-fueled, music-...

There were plenty of sensible reasons to not go backpacking in Hellsgate Wilderness. For starters, the name raised suspicions that it could be a...

Editor’s Note: In March 1946, a few months after V-J Day, Editor Raymond Carlson made his return to our magazine. “With this issue,” he wrote, “the...

The designated meeting spot along West Sedona’s stretch of State Route 89A couldn’t be more normal: a souvenir shop next to a gas station selling...

A sego lily displays its delicate bloom along the Barnhardt Trail, a hiking route in Central Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. Found in several...

Hard out of the small town of Harqua, Arizona, Flame Delhi was a natural. “Born in the heat of the alkali country,” as one newspaper rhapsodized,...
Hiking

Water. That’s the payoff on this hike. But only because water is so rare on desert trails. Even without water, this would be a keeper. The saguaros...