Grand Canyon Skywalk
A glass horseshoe extending from Eagle Point is one component of the tribally operated Grand Canyon West experience, with its own transport and photography rules.
Arizona, United States: places and wildlife — page 4
Browse the published Explore collection for Arizona, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Desert Botanical Garden
Five thematic trails connect Sonoran Desert ecology, global succulent diversity, conservation research, seasonal bloom, art, and practical water-wise design.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Desert plants from around the world grow beneath Picketpost Mountain along shaded creek, cactus, heritage-tree, and high-desert trails.
Tucson Botanical Gardens
Seventeen themed gardens, desert plants, barrio history, butterflies, art, and shade reward careful observation on a five-acre Tucson site.
Tohono Chul
Native gardens, desert trails, galleries, a bistro, and cultural programs turn forty-nine Tucson acres into a patient study of place.
Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix
Pond, waterfall, stone, tea garden, fish, pruning, and borrowed skyline show how Japanese garden principles were adapted through Phoenix–Himeji friendship.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Zoo, botanical garden, aquarium, natural-history museum, and art gallery combine around Sonoran Desert habitats west of Tucson.
Phoenix Zoo
Four major trails, Arizona species, elephants, primates, children’s areas, and conservation work fill a large outdoor zoo beside red sandstone buttes.
Reid Park Zoo
Elephants, giraffes, lions, South American species, conservation programs, and a new Asia expansion fit into a manageable city-park campus.
Bearizona Wildlife Park
A drive-through forest and walk-through Fort Bearizona present bears, wolves, bison, otters, raptors, and conservation programs near Williams.
OdySea Aquarium
Sharks, rays, penguins, sea turtles, freshwater ecosystems, and immersive viewing connect global waters inside a large Scottsdale attraction complex.
Cactus Wren
Arizona’s brash desert wren advertises itself from cholla with bold white brows, spotted plumage, and a mechanical chugging song.
Abert’s Towhee
A secretive lower-desert towhee scratches beneath mesquite, revealing a black face, warm undertail, and brief accelerating song.
Kaibab Squirrel
A white flag of a tail and tufted ears identify this squirrel found naturally only in the Kaibab Plateau’s ponderosa forest.
Mount Graham Red Squirrel
This endangered high-elevation squirrel survives in one isolated Arizona mountain forest, storing conifer cones in cool, damp middens.
Arizona Gray Squirrel
A broad pale-edged tail and warm reddish back distinguish this large squirrel of Arizona’s oak-lined mountain canyons.
Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
Arizona’s small mountain rattlesnake favors cool, rocky pine-oak canyons and shows pale facial stripes across an upturned snout.
Apache Trout
Arizona’s native golden trout survives through tribal and agency restoration in cold White Mountain headwaters with stream-specific fishing rules.
Gila Topminnow
This tiny livebearing fish persists in warm desert springs and cienegas where introduced mosquitofish, drought, and altered flows threaten recovery.
Little Colorado Spinedace
A subtle silvery minnow carries an outsized conservation story within the pools and connected flows of northern Arizona’s Little Colorado basin.
Two-tailed Swallowtail
Arizona’s enormous yellow state butterfly patrols canyon streams and gardens, flashing black tiger stripes and two tails on each hindwing.
Arizona Giant Skipper
A brief monsoon-season flight reveals this robust agave specialist, whose hidden larvae spend most of their lives inside host plants.
Saguaro
The Sonoran Desert’s towering column stores rain in pleated stems, shelters cavity nesters, and feeds wildlife with crown flowers and red fruit.
Arizona Cliffrose
This endangered evergreen shrub survives on unusual pale mineral soils, opening creamy flowers before producing long, feathery seed plumes.
Nichol’s Turk’s Head Cactus
A low blue-green barrel armed with heavy curved spines hides among southern Arizona limestone and blooms pink after warm-season rain.
Blue Palo Verde
Arizona’s state tree sheds tiny leaves during drought, photosynthesizes through blue-green bark, and erupts in pollinator-rich yellow spring bloom.
Arizona Sycamore
Mottled white trunks illuminate rocky canyon streams where this broad-crowned southwestern tree provides shade, cavities, and riparian structure.
Arizona Cypress
Blue-gray scale foliage, fibrous bark, and persistent round cones identify this fire-adapted conifer of Arizona’s rocky mountain canyons.
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Nevada’s state mammal turns steep desert rock into refuge, using gripping hooves while tracking sparse forage, shade, and water across isolated ranges.
Las Vegas Bearpoppy
A crinkled yellow poppy grows where Las Vegas gypsum looks almost barren, its blue-gray leaves revealing a plant specialized for difficult soil.
Singleleaf Pinyon
Nevada’s characteristic pinyon often carries one needle per bundle, building broad woodlands whose seeds connect people, birds, rodents, and fire.
Mountain Bluebird
Idaho’s state bird flashes an almost unbroken blue across open mountain and sage country, often hovering briefly before dropping onto ground prey.
Bitterroot
Montana’s state flower hides a surprising strategy: succulent leaves gather early moisture, disappear, and leave luminous pink blossoms seemingly resting on bare stony ground.
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush
The brilliant color belongs mostly to bracts, while the true flowers are smaller and tucked among them.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.