Yavapai County

October 12, 2026

Montezuma Well: A Desert Basin Fed by Water That Keeps Moving

In Yavapai County, a round limestone basin has sustained unusual wildlife and human communities for centuries. Its water still travels…

October 12, 2026

Tuzigoot: A Stone Village Above Arizona’s Verde Valley

On a ridge above the Verde River, Tuzigoot preserves the outline of a community shaped by local stone, valley resources…

October 12, 2026

Montezuma Castle: A Cliffside Home in Yavapai County

Above Beaver Creek, a five-story ancestral dwelling offers a striking view into the skill, history and enduring significance of Arizona’s…

September 22, 2026

Agua Fria National Monument: How a High Desert Plateau Keeps Yavapai County’s Deep History in View

North of Phoenix, Agua Fria National Monument brings mesas, river canyons, grasslands, and hundreds of archaeological sites into one rugged…

September 22, 2026

Lynx Lake: How a Prescott Mountain Reservoir Became an Everyday Escape

Just south of Prescott, Lynx Lake brings ponderosa pine, stocked waters, quiet trails, and high-country air into one accessible Yavapai…

September 22, 2026

The Verde Valley Archaeology Center: How Camp Verde Keeps an Ancient Landscape in View

In Camp Verde, a small museum helps visitors understand the villages, technologies, and cultural traditions that shaped the Verde Valley…

September 22, 2026

The Bradshaw Mountains: How Yavapai County’s Old Range Became a Public Landscape

Rising south of Prescott, the Bradshaw Mountains hold mining history, pine forests, desert watersheds, and a broad network of public…

September 22, 2026

Granite Basin Lake: How a Small Prescott Reservoir Makes Room for Desert Life

Just outside Prescott, Granite Basin Lake brings water, wildlife, trails, and high-desert geology together in a compact public landscape that…

September 22, 2026

Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza: How a Territorial Square Became Yavapai County’s Shared Living Room

In the center of Prescott, a courthouse square still does the quiet work of a town commons—holding history, public life,…

September 22, 2026

Thumb Butte: How Prescott’s Landmark Mountain Became a Public Front Door to the High Desert

Just west of Prescott, Thumb Butte gathers forest, trail, geology, wildlife, and wide-open views into one of Yavapai County’s most…

September 22, 2026

Sycamore Canyon: How a Wild Arizona Corridor Keeps Water, Stone, and Forest Together

In Yavapai County, Sycamore Canyon offers more than dramatic scenery. Its creek, cliffs, pine slopes, and desert vegetation form one…

September 16, 2026

Fossil Creek: How a Restored Arizona River Is Learning to Welcome Visitors

In the canyon country east of Camp Verde, Fossil Creek shows how river restoration, public access and careful limits can…

September 16, 2026

Camp Verde’s Dark-Sky Ambition: How a Verde Valley Town Is Protecting the Night

In Camp Verde, preserving the darkness above the town has become a civic project—one that connects astronomy, wildlife, tourism and…

September 16, 2026

Montezuma Castle: How a Verde Valley Cliff Dwelling Keeps Ancient Ingenuity in View

High above Beaver Creek, Montezuma Castle National Monument preserves a five-story home that still changes how visitors understand the Verde…

September 16, 2026

Goldwater Lake: How Prescott Keeps a Mountain Reservoir Part of Everyday Life

Just south of Prescott, Goldwater Lake offers something quieter than a destination attraction: a maintained public landscape where water, ponderosa…

September 16, 2026

Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary: How Prescott Gives Unreleasable Wildlife a Place to Belong

On the edge of Prescott, Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary offers a close look at Arizona wildlife while caring for animals…

September 16, 2026

Sharlot Hall Museum: How Prescott Built a Home for Arizona’s Many Histories

In a former territorial mansion, Sharlot Hall Museum preserves the stories, objects, and arguments that shaped Prescott and Arizona. Its…

September 16, 2026

Mingus Mountain: The Yavapai County Ridge Where Desert Meets Forest

Above the Verde Valley, Mingus Mountain brings together pine forests, open meadows, wildlife habitat, historic roads, and wide views—a high-country…

September 16, 2026

Dead Horse Ranch State Park: How a Cottonwood Ranch Became a Verde Valley Refuge

In Cottonwood, a former ranch brings together lagoons, cottonwoods, camping, fishing, and the Verde River—showing how a working landscape can…

September 16, 2026

Jerome State Historic Park: How a Copper Town’s Mansion Became a Mountain Archive

High above the Verde Valley, Jerome State Historic Park preserves the story of an Arizona mining town through one surviving…