Joan's journey south on the Arizona Trail | Introduction | From Utah: Wildfire | From the South Rim: Water | From Flagstaff: Public Lands | From Payson: Transitions | From the Superstitions: Solutions ...

There is so much to see in Arizona, so many different kinds of people and places. Flagstaff is pretty different from Tucson, which is different from Show Low, which is different from Bullhead City. I ...

From the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, I cruised south on a paved, downhill path out of the park toward Tusayan, riding with Ryan Choi, an ecologist in from Alaska and an old friend. It was a cool, sunny ...

I first heard about the Arizona Trail when a friend from my bike racing days set a new women’s self-supported “Fastest Known Time” riding the (now retired) 750-mile route. Elizabeth Sampey had been ...