Arizona
336 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Arizona Statehood, Last and Almost Vetoed
- Copper, The State That Built America
- Route Sixty-Six, The Mother Road Through Arizona
- Spanish and Mexican Arizona
- The Apache Wars and Geronimo
- The Diné, Navajo Nation
- The Gadsden Purchase, Buying the Bottom Half
- The Hohokam and Their Canals
- The Hopi, Sky Village on the Mesas
- The Tohono O'odham and the Desert People's Way
- Two Arizonas, The Sonoran Desert and the Colorado Plateau
- Water and the Central Arizona Project
Near Benson
- Benson, Arizona, Railroad Crossroads of the Borderlands
- Benson, the San Pedro Valley Crossroads
- Kartchner Caverns: Fourteen Years of Silence
- Saint David and Cascabel: Two Ways to Live by the River
- The Amerind Foundation, Art and Archaeology in Dragon Valley
- The Butterfield Overland Mail and the Crossing
- The San Pedro: The Southwest's Last Free River
Near Bisbee
- After Phelps Dodge: The Art Colony at the Bottom of a Mine
- Bisbee Deportation: Twelve Hundred Workers in Cattle Cars
- Bisbee: Queen of the Copper Camps
- Bisbee's Copper Town: Before and After the Deportation
- Brewery Gulch and Warren: Two Towns for Two Classes
- The Copper Queen Hotel
- The Lavender Pit: Named for a Man, Not a Color
- The Queen Mine: Ninety-Five Years Underground
Near Chloride
- A Living Ghost Town
- Chloride: Arizona's Oldest Mining Town
- Fire, the Old Engine, and Louis L'Amour
- Gunfights at High Noon
- Kingman
- Kingman BLEVE: The Tank Car Explosion of Nineteen Seventy-Three
- Kingman Depot
- Kingman: Named for the Man Who Mapped the Route
- One of Arizona's Oldest Post Offices
- The Cerbat Mountains and the Hualapai
- The Chloride Cemetery
- The Jim Fritz Museum and Old Buildings
- The Journey: Roy Purcell's Painted Rocks
- The Road Up from Highway Ninety-Three
- The Silver Spike: Railroad and Stagecoach
- The Tennessee Mine: Giant of the District
Near Flagstaff
- Elden Pueblo: A Sinagua Trading Hub at the Foot of the San Francisco Peaks
- Flagstaff: The High Desert Crossroads
- Flagstaff's Timber Empire and the Forest That Survived It
- Lowell Observatory
- Lowell Observatory and the Dark Sky Battle
- Northern Arizona University
- Northern Arizona University
- Northern Arizona University and the Town That Grew Around It
- Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars
- Percival Lowell's Lonely Vigil: The Observatory That Found a Planet
- Pluto and the Farm Boy from Kansas
- Sinagua or Hopi: The Name Dispute at Walnut Canyon
- The 1085 Eruption and the Wupatki Boom
- The Babbitt Brothers and Northern Arizona's Trading Empire
- The Colorado Plateau Underfoot
- The Farm Boy Who Found a World
- The Museum of Northern Arizona and the Colton Legacy
- The Railroad Transforms the Desert
- The Riordan Brothers Build a Kingdom of Wood
- The Riordan Brothers' Flagstaff Lumber Empire
- The Riordan Mansion: Two Families, One Roof
- The Sacred Peaks and the Snow Made from Sewage
- The Sinagua at Walnut Canyon
- The Stripped Pine on the Fourth of July
- The USNO Flagstaff Station and the Moon of Pluto
- The Weatherford Hotel and the Road Through Town
- The World's First Dark Sky City
- Walnut Canyon: Cliff Rooms Carved Into the Limestone
- Where Astronauts Learned to Walk on the Moon
Near Holbrook
- Bracero Workers and the Invisible Road Crew
- Holbrook: Crossroads on the Painted Desert
- Holbrook: Too Tough for Women or Churches
- Joseph City, Arizona
- Joseph City: Mormon Pioneers on the Little Colorado
- Saving the Petrified Forest
- Sheriff Perry Owens and the Gunfight on Commerce Street
- The Hashknife Outfit
- The Nations at the Junction
- The Painted Desert and a Very Old World
- The Wigwam Motel: Kitsch as Cultural Document
Near Jerome
- Camp Verde: The Fort That Became a Town
- Fort Verde State Historic Park
- Four Fires in Five Years
- Ghost Town: From Fifteen Thousand to Fifty
- Jerome: The Town That Refused to Die
- Montezuma Castle National Monument
- The Artists Who Moved Into the Ghost Town
- The Douglas Mansion: Jerome State Historic Park
- The Town That Slid Downhill
- The United Verde Mine: Two Billion Pounds of Copper
- The Wickedest Town in the West
Near Kayenta
- Black Mesa: Coal, Water, and a Contested Bargain
- Dinétah: A Homeland Drawn by Mountains
- Kayenta: The Trading Post at the Edge of the Monument
- Monument Valley: The West That John Ford Built
- Mystery Valley: Rooms Left Behind
- Oljato: Moonwater at the Edge of the Monuments
- Owl Rock: The Holy People's Spindle
- The Code the Japanese Never Broke
- The Long Walk: Exile and Return
Near Prescott
- Arizona's First Territorial Capital
- Fort Whipple: Frontier Garrison to Veterans' Home
- Sharlot Hall: Arizona's First Official Historian
- The Fire That Remade Whiskey Row
- The Granite Dells: One Point Four Billion Years of Rock
- The World's Oldest Rodeo
- The Yavapai: Removed and Returned
- Whiskey Row and the Town That Invented Itself: Prescott's Frontier
Near Sedona
- Airport Mesa: The Tabletop Runway
- Bell Rock: A Bell of Stone and the Sea Inside It
- Cathedral Rock: The Most Photographed Spires in Arizona
- Chapel of the Holy Cross: A Church Built into the Rocks
- Exodus Day: The Forced March of the Yavapai and Apache
- Honanki Heritage Site: The Largest Cliff Dwelling in Red Rock Country
- Montezuma Well
- Palatki Heritage Site: Red House and the Grotto
- Sedona and T.C. Schnebly, and the Post Office That Named a Town
- Sedona's Energy Vortexes: Tourism Built on Intuition
- Slide Rock State Park: A Water Slide on a Century Old Apple Farm
- T.C. Schnebly and the Town Named After His Wife
- The First Settlers and the Apple Orchards
- The Movie Era: Sixty Westerns in the Red Rocks
- The Red Rock Capital That Almost Wasn't: Sedona and the Oak Creek Canyon Road
- The Red Rock Geology: Born at the Edge of a Supercontinent
- The Sinagua: Farmers of the Red Rock Country
- Tlaquepaque Arts Village: Built Around the Trees
Near Tombstone
- Big Nose Kate
- Boothill Graveyard
- Ed Schieffelin and the Stone That Named a Town
- Hoptown and China Mary
- Morgan Earp and the Vendetta Ride
- OK Corral: Thirty Seconds and Two Centuries of Mythology
- Pearce Ghost Town
- Silver, Water, and the Town Too Tough to Die
- The Bird Cage Theatre
- The Cochise County Cowboys
- The Crystal Palace Saloon
- The Gunfight Behind the O K Corral
- The Tombstone Courthouse
- The Tombstone Epitaph
Near Wickenburg
Near Williams
- Ash Fork, Arizona
- Bearizona: The Bears of the Ponderosa
- Eighty-Three Elk on a Train
- Old Bill Williams and the Mountain He Named
- Parks, Arizona
- Route Sixty-Six's Green Book: The Racially Stratified Mother Road
- Six Million Years of Volcanoes
- The Grand Canyon Railway: Eighty-Eight Years to the Day
- The Havasupai and the Plateau Above the Canyon
- The Kaibab Forest and the Deer That Ate It
- The Lumber Company That Built a Town
- Williams, Arizona, Last Town on Route 66
- Williams, Arizona: The Last Town the Interstate Left Behind
Along the way
- Alpine, Arizona
- Amado: A Family's Name on the Land
- Angel Delgadillo and the Day Seligman Woke Up
- Angel Delgadillo and the Resurrection of Route Sixty-Six
- Antelope Canyon
- Apache-Sitgreaves: The Mogollon Rim's Hidden Edge
- Arcosanti: The City That Thought Different
- Arizona State Capitol
- Arizona State Capitol: Territory to Statehood Under One Dome
- Arizona's Oldest Town, Tubac
- Barrio Libre: Eighty Acres of Mexican American Life
- Beaver Dam, Arizona
- Bessie and Glen Hyde: The Honeymoon That Disappeared
- Biosphere 2: Eight People, Two Years, One Sealed World
- Bob Waldmire: The Cartographer Who Lived on the Road
- Bowie, Arizona, Apache Pass Gateway
- Brigham City, Mormon Ghost Town
- Bumble Bee: Arizona's Sweetest Ghost Town
- Burma-Shave: The Road's Vernacular Poets
- Calabazas, The Thirty-Year Mission
- Cameron Suspension Bridge
- Cameron Trading Post
- Carl Hayden Visitor Center
- Casa Grande: The Tower With No Agreed Explanation
- Cesar Chavez: He Was Born Here
- Chinle Franciscan Mission
- Chinle: Gateway to Canyon de Chelly
- Clifton: Copper Town in the Cliffs
- Cordes: A Crossroads That Named Itself
- Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
- Dillinger in Tucson: The Gang the FBI Couldn't Catch
- Douglas: The Company Town That Smelted an Empire
- Douglas: Where the Copper Smelter Ran the Border
- Eagar, Arizona
- Ehrenberg: A River Crossing Named for a Dead Man
- Ehrenberg: Arizona's Forgotten River Port
- El Tiradito, The Wishing Shrine of Barrio Viejo
- El Tiradito, Tucson's Wishing Shrine
- El Tiradito: The Shrine That Stopped a Freeway
- Eloy: Cotton City That Lost Its Name
- F.Q. Story: Phoenix's Streetcar Suburb
- Four Corners Monument
- Four Flags Over Tucson
- Geronimo's Surrender: The Last Resistance
- Ghost Town of White Hills
- Gila River: Thirteen Thousand on O'odham Land
- Glen Canyon Dam
- Graham County Courthouse: Safford's Beaux-Arts Anchor
- Grandview Mine: Copper at the Canyon's Edge
- Green Valley: Desert Designed for Retirement
- Guadalupe: A Yaqui Refuge Between the Freeways
- Hackberry General Store: What Preservation Actually Preserves
- Heritage Square: The Last Block of Old Phoenix
- Hohokam: The Five-Hundred-Mile Civilization
- Homolovi State Park
- Hopi Boarding Schools and the Language They Tried to Extract
- Hopi Boarding Schools: Children from the Oldest Towns in North America
- Hopi Boarding Schools: The Education That Tried to Erase a Mesa
- Hopi Mesas: The Villages That Were Never Conquered
- Horseshoe Bend
- Houck, Arizona
- Hualapai War: The History Under the Hackberry Road
- Hubbell Trading Post
- Hubbell Trading Post: The Economy Behind the Weaving
- January Eighth, Two Thousand Eleven
- John Wesley Powell's Blind Leap
- Kitt Peak: Sacred Mountain, Twenty-Two Telescopes
- Lake Powell
- Littlefield: First Farm on the Arizona Strip
- Marana: Incorporated to Save Its Water
- Mary Colter's Desert View Watchtower
- Mexican Repatriation: Citizens Pushed South
- Mission Garden, Four Thousand Years in Four Acres
- Mission San Xavier del Bac: White Dove, Long Shadow
- Morenci Copper Mine
- Navajo Generating Station
- Oatman and the Wild Burros of Route Sixty-Six
- Oatman, Arizona: A Name from Tragedy, a Town from Gold
- Old Oraibi: A Thousand Years of Continuity
- Page as a Company Town
- Page, Arizona
- Painted Desert Complex: Neutra Designs the Park
- Painted Desert Complex: Richard Neutra Meets Mission Sixty-Six
- Painted Desert Inn: The New Deal on the High Desert
- Petrified Forest and the Ongoing Fossil Heist
- Petrified Forest: Two Hundred Ninety-Four Million Years and What Came After
- Phoenix Indian School: Ninety-Nine Years
- Phoenix Trolley Museum: The Cars That Built the City
- Phoenix Union Station: The Last Train
- Picacho Pass: The Civil War's Westernmost Battle
- Picacho Pass: The Westernmost Civil War Battle
- Pima Air and Space Museum
- Poston: The Camp Built on Tribal Land Without Consent
- Quartzsite and the Sonoran Winter
- Quartzsite: A Ghost Town That Found Its People
- Quartzsite: Desert Town, Winter Capital of the RV World
- Rex Allen Museum: Willcox's Cowboy Hero
- Rex Allen, The Last Singing Cowboy
- Rio Rico: The Land Rush That Went Wrong
- Roosevelt Dam: Where the West Was Decided
- Safford, Arizona
- Sahuarita: Little Saguaro Country
- San Luis Río Colorado: Military Colony to Border City
- San Luis: Twin Cities on the Colorado
- San Simon, The Butterfield Stage in the Desert Valley
- San Xavier del Bac: The White Dove of the Desert
- Seligman, Where Route Sixty-Six Was Saved
- Sentinel Peak, The A on the Hill
- Sentinel Peak: The A on the Mountain
- Sky Harbor: From Farmland to the Eighth Busiest Airport in America
- Sky Islands: Mountains That Float Above the Desert
- Snaketown: The Hohokam City Beneath the Desert
- Somerton: Colorado River Farm Country
- Sonoran Desert: The Living Desert at the Edge of Everything
- Springerville: Gateway to the White Mountains
- St. Johns, Arizona
- Standin' on the Corner: Winslow and the Song That Saved a Town
- Steele Indian School Park: What the Ground Remembers
- Sun City: Hohokam Fields to Retirement Revolution
- Sunset, Arizona: The Mormon Ghost Town on the Little Colorado
- Sunset, Arizona: The Mormon Settlement That Could Not Hold
- Taliesin West: The Desert as Architecture
- Teddy Roosevelt's Grand Canyon Speech and the Eleven-Year Fight
- The 1956 Grand Canyon Mid-Air Collision
- The Akimel O'odham: The River People Who Fed the Territory
- The All Souls Procession: Grief Made Public
- The AMARG Boneyard: Four Thousand Aircraft in the Desert
- The Apache Trail: Dynamite, Scenery, and a Road That Kills People Every Few Years
- The Apache Wars: Twenty-Five Years of Resistance
- The Barrio's Adobe: A Building Tradition of the Desert
- The Boneyard: America's Largest Aircraft Graveyard
- The Day Two Nogaleses Went to War
- The Gadsden Hotel: Douglas's Grand Survivor
- The Gadsden Purchase: How Tucson Became American
- The Gila River: Highway of the Southwest
- The Havasupai's Eighty-Year Land Fight
- The Heard Museum and the Boarding School Archive
- The Kaibab: Ninety-Four Miles to the Other Rim
- The Kolb Brothers' Canyon and Their Decades-Long Feud
- The Las Capas Canals: Three Thousand Five Hundred Years of Irrigation
- The Last Silo Standing
- The Mirror Lab: Casting the Eyes of the World's Largest Telescopes
- The Navajo Long Walk
- The Navajo Nation and Page
- The North Rim's Short Season and Long Absence
- The Pascua Yaqui: Exile from Hiakim
- The Petrified Forest: Wood That Turned to Stone
- The Phelps Dodge Strike: Copper That Built Arizona
- The Powell Expedition
- The Saguaro: Ancestor, Calendar, Monument
- The Saguaro: Two Hundred Years in the Sonoran Desert
- The Santa Cruz River: Dewatered, Restored
- The Waehma: Yaqui Easter and the Living Ceremony
- The Wave and Paria Canyon Wilderness
- The White Dove of the Desert
- Tohono O'odham: The Desert People and the Saguaro New Year
- Tonto National Forest: The Lake Behind the Dam Nobody Wanted
- Tuba City Boarding School
- Tuba City, Arizona
- Tubac: Arizona's Oldest European Settlement
- Tucson UNESCO: Five Thousand Years of Desert Food
- Tumacacori: The Mission That Was Never Finished
- Two Guns: Murder, Mountain Lions, and Route Sixty-Six
- University of Arizona: The School the Gamblers Funded
- Vermilion Cliffs and the Return of the Condor
- Wallace and Ladmo: Thirty-Five Years of Phoenix Childhood
- Willcox, Arizona
- Willcox, Arizona, Cattle, Chiricahua, and Wine Country
- Winslow: Standing on the Corner Since Eighteen Eighty
- Women of the Route 66 Service Economy
- Wupatki and the Volcano That Built a City
- Yaqui Refugees: The Exile That Became a Nation
- Yuma Territorial Prison: The School in the Hell Hole
- Yuma: The Crossing That Built the Southwest