Wild places in Arizona

South Rim, Coconino County, Arizona

Two billion years of stone stacked like a book, opened by the Colorado River.

36.1° N · 112.1° WOpen plate →

Navajo Nation, near Page, Arizona

Wind and flood wrote a corridor of fire-colored stone.

36.9° N · 111.4° WOpen plate →

Navajo Tribal Park, Utah / Arizona

Red buttes standing like ships on a sea of sage.

37.0° N · 110.1° WOpen plate →

Glen Canyon, near Page, Arizona

The river turning back on itself in a perfect horseshoe of stone.

36.9° N · 111.5° WOpen plate →

Red Rock Country, Verde Valley, Arizona

Red rock that holds the last of the sun like a coal.

34.9° N · 111.8° WOpen plate →

Vermilion Cliffs, Paria Plateau, Arizona

A stone that looks poured, then frozen mid-pour.

37.0° N · 111.9° WOpen plate →

Navajo Nation, near Chinle, Arizona

A canyon that is still a home, not only a view.

36.1° N · 109.5° WOpen plate →

Chiricahua Mountains, Sky Island, Arizona

A mountain that exploded, then learned to balance.

32.0° N · 109.4° WOpen plate →

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

A hillside wearing the colors of a vanished river.

34.9° N · 109.8° WOpen plate →

Kaibab National Forest, North Rim country, Arizona

A yellow-pine forest standing on the canyon’s other door.

36.4° N · 112.1° WOpen plate →

north rim of the Grand Canyon, remote west, Arizona

The canyon without the crowd.

36.2° N · 113.1° WOpen plate →

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

A cactus forest that barely crosses the border.

32.0° N · 112.8° WOpen plate →

Coyote Buttes North, Arizona

Stone that learned the motion of water.

37.0° N · 112.0° WOpen plate →

Havasupai Reservation, Arizona

A blue pool the red wall still holds.

36.3° N · 112.7° WOpen plate →

Sonoran Desert, Tucson, Arizona

Arms the desert learned to hold up to the sun.

32.2° N · 111.2° WOpen plate →

San Francisco Peaks, Arizona

The state’s high roof, still wearing snow.

35.3° N · 111.7° WOpen plate →

San Francisco Volcanic Field, Arizona

A cone the last fire left standing.

35.4° N · 111.5° WOpen plate →

Superstition Mountains, Arizona

A needle the Superstitions kept for a landmark.

33.4° N · 111.4° WOpen plate →

Tawa Point, Petrified Forest, Arizona

A desert that kept every color of old mud.

35.1° N · 109.8° WOpen plate →

Oak Creek, Sedona, Arizona

Spires the creek was asked to look up at.

34.8° N · 111.8° WOpen plate →

West Fork, Coconino National Forest, Arizona

A gold corridor the creek kept under stone.

35.0° N · 111.7° WOpen plate →

Coconino National Forest, Sedona, Arizona

A bridge the hollow left standing.

34.9° N · 111.8° WOpen plate →

Arizona–Utah corridor, Arizona

A river that kept both states for a hallway.

36.9° N · 111.7° WOpen plate →

Colorado River, Arizona

A marble-named trench the river kept narrow.

36.8° N · 111.6° WOpen plate →

North Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona

The North Rim’s long look into the eastern gorge.

36.1° N · 111.9° WOpen plate →

Picacho Peak State Park, Arizona

A peak the basin raised like a warning.

32.6° N · 111.4° WOpen plate →

Woods Canyon overlook, Apache-Sitgreaves, Arizona

Where the Colorado Plateau ends.

34.3° N · 110.9° WOpen plate →