Around A.D. 1250, seeking refuge from some unknown threat, the Anasazi migrated from open villages to nearly inaccessible dwellings. A generation later, they moved again. Douglas Merriam In 1874 ...

As the famed North American road gears up to celebrate its centenary, head to Arizona; home to the longest remaining stretch of the original Route 66.

Most people who have never been to Arizona probably only know it for ... National Monument near Sedona protects 800-year-old ...

Arizona has long held a reputation for being ... alike have long debated the reasons why the castle and the dwellings at the nearby Montezuma Well were abandoned around 1400 CE.

Meet Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist who is quietly organizing county-level rejection of a landmark law ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include Grand Teton and Acadia.

But he did find remarkable ruins — 12-foot-high granaries, dwellings built in the nether reaches of caves or under ledges. What Lumholtz found did not fit into the rubric of the cliff-dweller ...

More than a century later, national parks and monuments continue to do just that, boasting everything from impressive natural wonders to the ruins of ... motor vehicles. In Arizona, eight ...

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona I think Petrified Forest ... The park preserves the cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people and is home to Cliff Palace, the largest-known cliff ...

Portal, Arizona, is a remote community in the southeastern corner of the state at the mouth of Cave Creek Canyon. Cave Creek Canyon offers excellent birdwatching, hiking and stargazing.