As the trail wound its way into Arizona's Sky Islands, the region's biodiversity was on full display, as were the threats from rising temperatures.

As we walked the trail back to his car, he bent to touch a soft tuft of blue grama grass, a drought-resistant native. It’s ...

As the Arizona Trail winds past the proposed Oak Flat copper mine, the search for climate solutions takes on new meaning.

After biking through the higher-elevation forests, Republic reporter Joan Meiners finds a different Arizona Trail below the Mogollon Rim.

“You can’t get there from here,” my hiking partner told a confused pair of trekkers who asked us for directions to an Arizona Trail junction. He gently kicked my shin to signal he was joking as the ...

Access to Arizona wilderness areas is a mixed bag of easy walk-ins from paved suburban roads (Munds Mountain Wilderness in Sedona) to miles of driving on white-knuckle two tracks in the middle of ...

Trail runner Lydia Jennings decided to celebrate completing her doctorate with a 50-mile run on the Arizona Trail. A member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and an environmental microbiologist, she also did ...