If you haven’t hiked Picacho Peak yet this year, this is the time. Two reasons for your haste: weather, and flowers. The difficult, adventurous, two-mile Hunter Trail to the top is most comfortably ...
Wildflower season 2025 is just getting underway in metro Phoenix and it's not going to be a thriller like the colorful eruption that occurred in the spring of 2023. That's because the region has ...
PICACHO PEAK — This blade of stone, stabbing at the sky along Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix, all but cries out to passing motorists: Climb me! Those who answer that call are in for a short, ...
This week on an Arizona Illustrated, take a trip to Picacho peak for wildflower season, a local chef with an unlikely resume is a semifinalist for a 2023 James Beard award, remembering the king of ...
The rugged states of the American West all have their own challenging, technical hiking trails, but Arizona often takes this to a whole new level. While the Grand Canyon State generally lacks the snow ...
We’re precisely halfway through September, the month "Monuments to Main Street" (M2M) fills with exciting events like special hikes, aerial tours, festivals, and much more. The coming week is no ...