In less than 800 miles, the Arizona Trail offers a steady string of stunning landscapes, uncanny animals, and changing circumstances. If your time is limited, it’s the national scenic trail to try.

Finding other people on the Arizona Trail is energizing, but people are also changing the trail along its final miles.

What I like most about winter hikes is that the trails are less crowded. Plus, there is nothing prettier than hiking in a ...

Arizona is known for its hiking, and more national rankings are proving it. Three Arizona hikes recently made a list of the 10 most beloved hikes in the United States from outdoor apparel brand KÜHL.

Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — As Arizona's winter sun warms the desert trails and snow dusts the high country peaks, it's time to embrace the outdoors with the AZ Bootleg 100—an inclusive, self-paced ...

Legends tell of a gold miner who struck gold, but never got to enjoy his riches. The story may not be true, but the allure of a quick solution remains real on the Arizona Trail. ASU law professor ...

In Arizona's Sky Islands, the biodiversity of the Arizona Trail unspools on a landscape populated with desert vegetation and wildlife like coatimundi, snakes and skunks. Rising temperatures and other ...

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 ...

Over seven weeks this fall, Arizona Republic climate reporter Joan Meiners is biking the length of the 850-mile Arizona Trail from Utah to Mexico to report on how climate change is affecting the state ...