It’s not often that photographic literature of the American Southwest also has a strong message of keeping people out of photographed areas. In Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape, Jonathan Bailey aims to do just that, taking a conserv...

It might not feel like it in the Phoenix area, but winter is coming, folks. And that means rain, snow and ice on roads in many parts of Arizona, which can make driving hazardous for day-trippers and other winter travelers. With that in mind, the Arizon...

From the issue: "Arizona Superstar, patterned after the Arizona state flag and piloted by Tom Lilley, floats over Watson Lake at Granite Dells near Prescott." Photo by Gary Johnson, a longtime Arizona Highways contributor who recently died u...

Raymond Westerman couldn’t even walk when he sat on his first horse. There’s a photograph of the Arizona native perched on a horse at just 6 months of age. Bonita — the family called her “Bonnie” for short — was the same horse Westerman’s mother, a sch...

A major rebuilding project on an Arizona roadway has received an award from an industry publication, and another project south of Phoenix has been awarded a federal grant, the Arizona Department of Transportation announced recently.

Recently, we at Arizona Highways came across something interesting regarding an Arizona landmark. It's Roosevelt Dam, which forms Roosevelt Lake northeast of Phoenix. Construction on the dam started in 1906 and was completed in 1911. In 1963, it was de...

From the issue: "The warm silhouette of a Joshua tree against a flaming Arizona sunset. Perhaps nowhere else in the world is one confronted with such unusual beauty so often." Photo by Josef Muench.

Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Franciscan mission on Tohono O'odham land near Tucson, has been named to the World Monuments Fund's 2016 list of historical sites at risk from the forces of nature and human influence.

An online campaign is seeking to raise money to renovate the Tuba City home of a Navajo Code Talker -- one of only 12 such veterans still living. Dan Akee, who celebrated his 94th birthday last week, is currently unable to live in his home due to its c...

Laura Tohe was born and raised on the Navajo Nation. Her mother was a weaver and an artist, and her father was one of the Navajo Code Talkers. She learned to write stories and poems through her extended family's storytelling. And as she grew, books — a...