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Arizona holidays

January 2020

  • Amtrak’s Southwest Chief at Wootton Ranch, Colorado, near the Raton Pass.

    Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train

    With Elvis’s Mystery Train playing on his headphones, our writer rides Amtrak’s Southwest Chief from Illinois to Arizona through big landscapes and small towns

December 2017

  • Contestants in a Dolly Parton lookalike competition in Phoenix, 1979.

    David Hurn: the social life of Arizona - in pictures

    In 1979, British photographer David Hurn was awarded a Bicentennial Fellowship to photograph in America. He opted to focus on Arizona, where he was drawn to its festivals and social gatherings

July 2017

  • View of the Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon, USA.

    How to hike the Grand Canyon

    Our writer tackles the 23-mile Rim-to-Rim trail in a single, muscle-grinding day, but offers tips for walking the route at a gentler pace

March 2017

  • The Dowtown Phoenix skyline at sunset, the city is witnessing a food and drink boom.

    Rising Arizona: how Phoenix is becoming a foodie city to savour

    Phoenix is working hard to reinvent a food scene once regarded as flatter than a pancake. Guardian restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin eats her way round the diners and restaurants fusing cuisines and creating fresh twists on American classics

January 2017

  • A woman meditating at a vortex site in Sedona, Arizona, US.

    Spiritual Sedona: the Arizona town bursting with positive vibes

    America’s new-age capital is brimming with tours, classes and shops offering spiritual healing, but its most uplifting aspect is its dramatic setting amid rust-coloured mesas and buttes

November 2016

  • Bryce Canyon National Park, southern Utah, USA

    Instagram snapshots
    Instagram snapshots: Mathew Leonardi is awed by the US south-west

    The need to ‘feel like a tiny speck in a wondrous world’ inspired Instagrammer Mathew Leonardi’s road trip across the stunning landscapes of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona

July 2016

  • USA, Arizona, Tucson, Downtown city center, La Placita Village<br>B7HP3R USA, Arizona, Tucson, Downtown city center, La Placita Village

    On the radar
    Tucson, Arizona, cultivates its foodie reputation – with a nod from Unesco

    Having gained Unesco city of gastronomy recognition, Tucson’s new wave of downtown restaurants are making the most of the area’s unusual desert foods

September 2015

  • Andrew Healey hits the cowboy trail on Amigo, his trusty steed.

    Accessible Arizona: saddling up for a cowboy adventure

    Andrew Healey leaves his wheelchair behind during an Arizona cowboy adventure

February 2015

  • Route 66.

    US road trip: a guide to Route 66

    Driving America’s most iconic highway is the trip of a lifetime. Author and Route 66 expert Candacy Taylor shares her tips on the classic motels, old-school diners and gas stations to stop at en route for a true slice of Americana

January 2015

  • Jade Bar

    Top 10 bars in Phoenix and Scottsdale for Super Bowl 2015

  • Blue Swallow Motel

    Instagram snapshots
    Instagram snapshots: camera kicks on Route 66

October 2014

  • American road trips

    GuardianWitness assignments
    From Mystery Valley to Seldom Seen Rd, your American road trip photos

  • Bookshop Leakey's, in Inverness

    Books blog
    Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures

September 2014

  • The bar at the Madonna Inn

    Experts' and readers' tips
    Kitsch American motels: readers’ tips

    Wigwams, clowns and train carriages: if you’re looking for offbeat accommodation for your next US road trip, here are 10 places to find a kitsch kip

October 2013

  • Grand Canyon national park, Arizona

    Top 10 national parks in Arizona

  • US shutdown: Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore to reopen

February 2013

  • London Bridge in the early morning, Havasu, Arizona, United States of America, North America

    A trip to see London Bridge … in Arizona

    In 1971 Robert P McCulloch bought London Bridge and shipped it to a small desert town. But, as Travis Elborough finds, the pre-Victorian masterpiece is very much at home on the Colorado River in the heart of Mojave County

October 2012

  • Riding shotgun … a stagecoach in Tombstone, Arizona.

    Best western: the Tombstone B&B where the Earps once lived

    The Earp home near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, is now a B&B – perfect for wannabe gunslingers, writes Nigel Summerley

January 2010

  • Arizona-cowboy-in-sunset

    Home from home: house-sitting holidays

    From Arizona to Tonga, some of the best working holidays around

November 2009

  • How to do the Wild West on the cheap

    Four of the best cheap places to stay around Arizona's Monument Valley

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