SEDONA, Ariz. – I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d find the vortex. I had traveled ...

On a clear spring day, my mother and I hiked an unmarked spur trail to Subway Cave, in Boynton Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. As we scrambled up a cliff to the cave’s opening, we heard a little boy ask ...

The Grand Canyon in northern Arizona is listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Colorado River, running through it for approximately six million years, has established ...

Near Sedona, Arizona, visitors can find a red-rock haven with creekside trails for all kinds of hikers, nighttime events, and ...

Vortexes draw New Age practioners like moths seeking the light. These areas scattered among the red rocks outside a small Arizona city are said to be swirling centers of energy — sometimes magnetic, ...

Western Bureau Chief for Courthouse News Service since 2014. San Francisco Federal Reporter and Northern California Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2014. Passionate about photography, camping and history.

Pink Jeep Tours in the Sedona area take visitors to places with names like Submarine Rock and the “Road of No Return,” as well as on longer excursions to the Grand Canyon, two hours away. Irene ...

This 2018 photo shows the town of Sedona, Arizona, seen from the Airport Mesa Loop Trail. From left to right are Thunder Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Coffee Pot Rock. The sleepy Arizona town of Sedona has ...