GILA BEND, Ariz. - Initially, it didn’t seem promising. My husband Steve and I were traveling a long stretch of rural road, searching for what we’d been told was a federal Bureau of Land Management ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. What finally did them in was a ...

The jeep lurches over the rocks, nearly jolting the GPS out of Aaron Wright’s hand. He steers the vehicle to the top of a gully and peers at the map in his lap. He took a wrong turn somewhere. He ...

Deep in the Sonoran Desert near Gila Bend lies Painted Rock, a basalt mound covered with over 800 intricate petroglyphs left by Indigenous peoples more than a thousand years ago. The site became a ...