Antelope Island is one of those places that feels like it shouldn’t exist. You’ve got bison herds roaming freely, a salty desert landscape that turns otherworldly at golden hour and surreal ...

Kenzie Beach talks with a health expert about the risk of measles after a case was reported at Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport on June 10.

National parks are offering a growing number of nighttime programs for visitors looking for novel experiences or those eager ...

Just as many wildflowers are beginning to fade, cactus blooms are showing up a bit early to keep deserts around Tucson colorful. Among the early bloomers are red and yellow cholla cactus flowers ...

From Alaska to California and Arizona to Colorado, these are the Most Treasured Views across the West. Explore this travel bucket list.

Nestled in the Verde Valley just 100 miles north of Phoenix, Cottonwood has transformed from a sleepy agricultural community ...

Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s ... Davidson’s passion for desert ecology began in the late 1980s when he spent his weekends hiking in Red Rock Canyon. “There’s a Blue Diamond ...

The Caminantes organise yearly cactus watering tours, but it's little in the face of the desert's extended droughts ... thick above us it feels like the sky has dropped closer to the Earth ...

But reaching out of nooks in the cracked crust along the desert's coast, there lie thousands of Copiapoa cacti. A cactus group made ... above us it feels like the sky has dropped closer to the ...

For centuries, the saying "Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" has been used to predict the weather – but is there any truth to it? According to ...