Each year, Lake Havasu celebrates with a holiday parade of boats that will light up the night! An amazing array of water vehicles get in on the action and the ...
Hidden within the Grand Canyon are an estimated 1,000 caves. Most of the caves are located in the limestone layer in the canyon. 45 million years ago, during the Mississippian ...
In 1540, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado set out on a two-year expedition to find the Seven Cities of Cibola (the seven cities of gold) rumored to lie to the north ...
On the southern border of Arizona and crossing into Mexico, a unique species of cactus grows. It is native only North America and the Sonoran Desert. Its unique towering pipe ...
Arizona has a diversity of activities for visitors, from big city excitement to wilderness adventure and terrain varying from desert to mountains. Here are our picks for the top 10 ...
Less than 900 years ago, a volcano erupted in a curtain of fire near Flagstaff, Arizona. Additional vents formed along a 6 mile line (the San Francisco Volcanic Field) and ...
On July 4, 1876, a group of pioneers traveling West, stopped at a spring in the shadow of the San Francisco Peaks. To celebrate the centennial of the nation, they ...
Around 50,000 years ago, the climate of Arizona was much different. Much cooler and damper, the area around what is now modern-day Winslow, was open grasslands and with wooded areas. ...
Hoover Dam was the first major check to the wild plunge of the Colorado River, forming Lakes Mead and Mojave. The lakes and the lands surrounding them make up the ...
The painted desert of Arizona stretches from the Four Corners area, to the Grand Canyon, to the Petrified Forest National Park. The desert gets its name from the layers of ...
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