Episodes

  • 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
  • REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH AMY S. MARTIN

    REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH AMY S. MARTIN
    Jul 25 2025
    In Episode 21 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with photographer Amy S. Martin in the wake of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, many of the historic cabins and so much of the surrounding landscape. In addition to her work for Arizona Highways, Amy worked for many years as a river guide and backcountry ranger at Grand Canyon National Park.
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    37 mins
  • REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH DR. TOM MYERS

    REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH DR. TOM MYERS
    Jul 23 2025
    In Episode 20 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with Dr. Tom Myers in the wake of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, many of the historic cabins and so much of the surrounding landscape. For several decades, Tom has been a doctor at Grand Canyon National Park. He honeymooned at the North Rim, and he’s one of the few people to have hiked the length of the Canyon.
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    22 mins
  • REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH BRUCE AIKEN

    REMEMBERING THE NORTH RIM WITH BRUCE AIKEN
    Jul 21 2025
    In Episode 19 of the Arizona Highways podcast, host Steve Goldstein and Arizona Highways editor Robert Stieve talk with artist Bruce Aiken in the wake of the devastating Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, many of the historic cabins and so much of the surrounding landscape. For more than 30 years, Bruce lived within the Grand Canyon at Roaring Springs.
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    21 mins