Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the ...

Cottonwood shoots along the Santa Cruz River near Mission San Xavier stand 2 or 3 feet tall. Some seep willows — members of the sunflower family — are just a little shorter. Cattails jut 3 ...

The 184-mile river begins in Santa Cruz County’s San Rafael Valley and flows south into Mexico before hooking north and crossing back into the U.S. just east of Nogales.

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