Episodes

  • RIDING SOLO ON THE ARIZONA TRAIL

    RIDING SOLO ON THE ARIZONA TRAIL
    Mar 19 2026
    In Episode 29 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Joan Meiners, a climate reporter for The Arizona Republic who recently completed the Arizona Trail. All 800 miles. In one shot. On a mountain bike.
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    45 mins
  • PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE

    PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE
    Feb 28 2026
    In Episode 28 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Gil and Troy Gillenwater, two brothers from Phoenix who set out, in 1982, to hike the length of the state. Like Lewis and Clark, they encountered all kinds of hardships, including snakes, scorpions, mountain lions … even gunfire.
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    43 mins
  • LIFE AS A WRANGLER IN THE GRAND CANYON

    LIFE AS A WRANGLER IN THE GRAND CANYON
    Jan 23 2026
    In Episode 27 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Remy Kelbel, who’s enjoying her dream job as a wrangler in one of the most beautiful — and most dangerous — places to ride. “I count my blessings every day,” she says.
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    33 mins
  • REMEMBERING TIM MITCHELL’S CHRISTMAS TREES

    REMEMBERING TIM MITCHELL’S CHRISTMAS TREES
    Dec 19 2025
    In Episode 26 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Jayne Mitchell, whose father, Tim, began selling Christmas trees in downtown Phoenix in 1950. Sadly, after seven decades, the family business closed down. Now, all that’s left are the memories.
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    28 mins
  • THE RESURRECTION OF A MIDCENTURY ARTIST

    THE RESURRECTION OF A MIDCENTURY ARTIST
    Nov 26 2025
    In Episode 25 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Ann Lane Hedlund, the author of a new book about artist Mac Schweitzer, a remarkable woman who was renowned in the 1950s, but fell into obscurity after her sudden death in 1962.
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    36 mins
  • THE WOOLLY MAN OF THE WILDERNESS

    THE WOOLLY MAN OF THE WILDERNESS
    Oct 27 2025
    In Episode 24 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Jonathan Buford, the intrepid author and photographer of a new book that spotlights each of Arizona’s 90 wilderness areas.
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    37 mins
  • WHAT EXACTLY IS THE COLORADO PLATEAU?

    WHAT EXACTLY IS THE COLORADO PLATEAU?
    Sep 26 2025
    In Episode 23 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with geologist Wayne Ranney about the Colorado Plateau, a landmass that’s home to 10 national parks. They also discuss what’s next on the North Rim in the wake of the Dragon Bravo Fire.
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    34 mins
  • PIONEERING WOMEN OF THE GRAND CANYON

    PIONEERING WOMEN OF THE GRAND CANYON
    Aug 15 2025
    In Episode 22 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with science writer Melissa Sevigny, the author of “Brave the Wild River,” a book about two female botanists who ran the Colorado River in 1938. And in our August issue, she writes about Florence Merriam Bailey, another remarkable scientist who changed the course of ornithology.
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    36 mins