I visited the Grand Canyon's North Rim looking for a uniquely Arizona experience. Instead, it taught me what it meant to be an Arizonan.

The Dragon Bravo Fire will close the Grand Canyon's North Rim for some time, nature having driven us from a place we called our own. But not forever.

In this secluded paradise, mail still arrives by mule, turquoise cascades tumble into travertine pools, and time flows at the ...