A Scottsdale museum that celebrates Western art is the best such museum in the nation, according to a new ranking by True West magazine. Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, which opened in early 2015, was honored in True West's September i...

The National Park Service isn't the only thing in Arizona celebrating its centennial in 2016.

Anthony Rudisill has been painting landscapes and other subjects for six decades. His most recent work celebrates what he calls "the best of America's natural resources." That includes his National Parks Series — which is timely, since the National Par...

The following essay appeared in the March 1969 issue of Arizona Highways, to mark the 50th birthday of Grand Canyon National Park. We’re reproducing it today, on the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. A Tribute to the National Park Service By...

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From the issue: "'Certain color harmonies produce sensations that even music cannot achieve,' Delacroix wrote in his Journals; and the Grand Canyon is one of the superb examples that prove the point." Photograph by Josef Muench. (We've moved this...

When you hear of an event called “bat netting,” you may conjure up images of roaming through caves with a butterfly net in the dead of night in search of elusive nocturnal creatures.

National parks, it's been said, are the best idea we've ever had. But you know what's even better? Free admission at national parks. National Park Service sites in Arizona and elsewhere will waive entrance fees this Thursday through Sunday (August 25-2...

From the issue: "'In Aravaipa Canyon' by Darwin Van Campen. Photo taken in Aravaipa Canyon near the lower end of the 'box.'"

It may seem like I'm becoming a bit of a broken record, but I sure do love phot...