North out of the Valley into red rock country. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The Historian187 km · about 117 min · 23 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Heard Museum Collection
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Founding of Grand Canyon University
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Diller Family Concrete Farmhouse
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Formation of Arizona Territory
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Great Depression's CCC Legacy
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Phoenix, Arizona
The Saguaro's Century of Growth
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Anthem, Arizona
The Origins of Anthem
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New River, Arizona
The Sun-Up Ranch Homestead
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New River, Arizona
Engineering the Black Canyon Corridor
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Black Canyon City, Arizona
The Perry Mesa Tradition
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Black Canyon City, Arizona
The I-17 Mystery Tree
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Black Canyon City, Arizona
The Prospectors of Bumble Bee
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Cordes Lakes, Arizona
The Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
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Cordes Lakes, Arizona
The Gila Monster's Venomous Mystery
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Mayer, Arizona
The Espionage of Frederick Mayer
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Dewey, Arizona
The Orme School Ranch Legacy
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Camp Verde, Arizona
Fort Verde Military History
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Camp Verde, Arizona
The Yavapai-Apache Exodus
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Rimrock, Arizona
The Granite Reef Diversion
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Rimrock, Arizona
The Sinagua at Montezuma Castle
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Rimrock, Arizona
The Jerome Mining Boom
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Sedona, Arizona
Sedona's Artistic and Spiritual Evolution
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Sedona, Arizona
The Chapel of the Holy Cross
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.