Outside
Woodshop to Whitewater: How Cricket Zarn Learned to Build Boats for the West’s Biggest Rapids
How do you design a wooden dory strong enough to handle Grand Canyon whitewater? If you’re Zarn, you start by crashing a lot of boats.
Outside
My Feet Were Destroyed After 40 Miles in the Grand Canyon. This Barefoot Trail Saved Them.
I hiked along the new Barefoot Trail near Flagstaff, Arizona—the first official grounding park in the U.S. Here’s what it’s actually like.
Atlas Obscura
Discover Arizona’s Majesty
Arizona is wild in its environmental diversity, boasting five of the six distinct types of ecological biomes. Tundra, forest, woodland, scrub, grassland, and desert biomes are spread across the state, with four deserts, over 210 named mountain ranges, a biblical-scale monsoon season—and, of course, the Grand Canyon. The Sonoran Desert, which stretches across much of the state’s southern half, i…