Wrapped around Prescott, the Prescott National Forest is more than a backdrop of pine-covered hills. Its trails, watersheds, wildlife habitat,…
North of Phoenix, Agua Fria National Monument brings mesas, river canyons, grasslands, and hundreds of archaeological sites into one rugged…
Just south of Prescott, Lynx Lake brings ponderosa pine, stocked waters, quiet trails, and high-country air into one accessible Yavapai…
In Camp Verde, a small museum helps visitors understand the villages, technologies, and cultural traditions that shaped the Verde Valley…
Rising south of Prescott, the Bradshaw Mountains hold mining history, pine forests, desert watersheds, and a broad network of public…
Just outside Prescott, Granite Basin Lake brings water, wildlife, trails, and high-desert geology together in a compact public landscape that…
In the center of Prescott, a courthouse square still does the quiet work of a town commons—holding history, public life,…
Just west of Prescott, Thumb Butte gathers forest, trail, geology, wildlife, and wide-open views into one of Yavapai County’s most…
In Yavapai County, Sycamore Canyon offers more than dramatic scenery. Its creek, cliffs, pine slopes, and desert vegetation form one…
In Scottsdale, a volunteer network helps older adults with the ordinary tasks that can become difficult with age—while proving that…
In a world full of urgent needs, mentoring offers a quieter form of kindness: showing up, paying attention and giving…
Across Arizona, older adults are stepping into classrooms, child-care centers and community programs as mentors, listeners and steady friends. The…
Once reduced to just 21 animals in the United States, the Sonoran pronghorn is showing what patient, cross-border conservation can…
Across southeastern Arizona, biologists, landowners, tribes, zoos, and public agencies are rebuilding the ponds and streams that the Chiricahua leopard…
Once pushed toward extinction by dams, altered river flows and introduced predators, the humpback chub is showing what patient conservation…
Once reduced to only a handful of animals, the Mexican gray wolf is slowly rebuilding a wild population across Arizona…
In Arizona’s Aubrey Valley, a small nocturnal hunter is returning to the grasslands that once supported it. The black-footed ferret’s…
On a rocky rise above the Colorado River, Yuma Territorial Prison preserves one of Arizona’s most complicated early institutions—and the…
Before Arizona had a state government, its public life gathered under the copper dome of a modest Phoenix landmark. Today,…
In Ganado, Arizona, a 19th-century trading post remains a working historic site—one where Diné art, family memory, commerce, and the…