Joe Pagac's towering 153-foot "Desert Colossus" saguaro cactus, set against a baby blue cloud-dotted backdrop, looms ...

Last year was Phoenix’s hottest year on record. In spite of that, fewer people died as a result of heat in Maricopa County in ...

IN 1933, SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK WAS ESTABLISHED. PHOTOGRAPHER CLYDE BUTCHER, WHOSE STUNNING LANDSCAPES ARE CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY AT THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM, DESCRIBED VISITING THE ...

Its 4-mile length wanders through the last vestiges of neon and industry before ducking into mountainous backcountry, but not before delivering one of the best trips through saguaro cactus country ...

Exclusively found in the Sonoran desert, these cactuses grow the state flower of Arizona — the saguaro cactus flower. They are the tallest cactuses in America and can live up to 200 years. The ...

You'll be amazed by the ways desert birds survive and thrive in dry country. Learn about the bird species that live in ...

Cherokee rose, or rosa laevigata, is the official Georgia state flower. The flower is native to eastern Asia, though it is ...

Saguaro National Park is beautiful, but it's also home to some incredibly dangerous wildlife. Here are the animals you need ...

Jack Dykinga won a Pulitzer in Chicago, then came West for a celebrated career in nature photography. And at age 82, after a ...

There was a dispute between advocates for the new seal and those who wanted to keep the old territorial version, which featured a buck, pine trees and a saguaro cactus. But the new design won out, and ...

Nine years ago – in August – my youngest son moved to Phoenix. Hating the idea of him all by his lonesome in a U-Haul truck, ...

This 92,867-acre park is dedicated to the largest cactus in the U.S., the saguaro (pronounced sa-WAH-ro), a universal symbol of the American West. The park is divided into two districts ...