r/arizona • • Jul 19 '26

Meta Quick rule reminder and update for r/Arizona

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Wanted to give a reminder and quick update on a few rules.

Picture posts need a location and a description. Doesn't have to be an exact address, but generally what part of Arizona it was taken in. This has been a rule for ages and was suggested by users to help combat picture spam ("Wow, check this out!") and balance the many weather and sunset pictures we get flooded with. Plus it helps people know WTF your post is about.

When we get a ton of posts on one topic we'll make a megathread and try to bring the conversation together. Don't take it personal. I know some people love a million pictures about monsoons or sunsets, but many don't and let us know all about it. A megathread is the compromise. We don't do it often, so please just use it the few times we do.

Any political posts (or politic adjacent, like Flock cameras and Data Centers) needs to be flared Politics and are limited to established users here. This combats trolls and bots.

Recommendations for local businesses are better suited for your local subreddits like [r/Phoenix](r/Phoenix), [r/Tucson](r/Tucson), or [r/Flagstaff](r/Flagstaff). The exception are posts about things to do and places to eat that may be of interest to other Arizonans traveling around the state. Roofing companies, massage places, and thrift stores are more of a local thing.

Posts shaming or calling out people or businesses are not welcome here. I get the desire for a good witch hunt, but it's too prone to hurting innocent people. News stories about issues are fine, this is just about posting pictures of people who pissed you off or a business that made you nasty cupcakes. We've covered this policy a lot but there has been a bunch of these lately. Maybe it's the heat making everyone cranky. Either way, this subreddit isn't your personal attack dog.

If you have any questions, ask away.


r/arizona • • 15d ago

Politics Arizona 2026 Proposition + Election Discussion

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Election day is coming up, so we're creating a discussion thread for questions about the propositions or other items on ballots across the state.

You are welcome to share your views on any of the issues or candidates across the state.

Here are some links you might find useful:

Voting information for AZ

Ballotpedia AZ 2026

Maricopa County - what's on my ballot

AZ Mirror Voting Guide

Also, check out the r/Tucson 2026 Election Megathread

If you have other links or info, leave them in the comments. We may add them to the original post.

Keep in mind that our political rules are in full force here, so only regular members to this subreddit will be able to comment. And any personal attacks on other users will result in a ban.

The purpose of this thread to to create a civil space to discuss the elections and trolls, fear mongering, or comments that offer little or no value will be removed.

Above all VOTE!


r/arizona • • 44m ago

Pictures Kofa Cemetery- a pioneer cemetery located deep within the Kofa Mountains

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r/arizona • • 1h ago

Things To Do Trick-or-treating spots

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So, Halloween this year is going to severely inconvenienced for us. My 8th grader has made it to the semifinals in football league and we are playing at Brophy with the game starting at 4:00pm. Game probably won’t be over until around 6ish. We live in Mesa and probably won’t make it back in time to enjoy trick-or-treating fully. Was looking for good places for my 7 year old to get some candy after the game around Brophy. Anybody have some suggestions?


r/arizona • • 1d ago

Travel Lots of speed traps on I-17 between PHX and Flag today

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240 Upvotes

Be smart out there


r/arizona • • 1d ago

Sunsets Sunset From Gates Pass 10/21

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228 Upvotes

r/arizona • • 1d ago

Outdoors Lake Pleasant Yavapi Point

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78 Upvotes

I went on a small hike yesterday morning and enjoyed some nice views of Lake Pleasant. I love that it's the time of year where I can hike in the valley. Does anyone have any good suggestions? I've hiked around deem hills a lot, cave creek regional park, usery mountain regional park. I've also done a lot of the "destination hikes" in the valley like Tom's Thumb.

Hiking is a totally new hobby for me, I've only been doing it regularly for about a year. I'd love to hear from the pros!


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Travel View of Jerome from the Verde Canyon Railroad

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487 Upvotes

The train ride was exceptional!


r/arizona • • 11h ago

Politics AI Analysis of Superior Court Judges for voting

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Hey all -- if you're not familiar with it, the state performs reviews on judges by their peers. You can find those documents at this site: https://jpr.azcourts.gov/Judicial-Performance-Reports/2026-Judicial-Performance-Reports/2026-Maricopa-Reports

I thought this year, I'd use some tokens and let AI help me analyze which judges to vote for, since those votes can actually be pretty consequential. Judges in those positions that impact the day-to-day lives of everyone. It ran an analysis on all of the scores provided by judges' peers on that site, came up with a median score, then gave me a yes or no vote based on whether that judge was above or below the median.

I want to stress that these reviews are non-partisan. They're simply peer reviews from folks who actually work with these judges.

Here are the results:

┌──────────────────────────┬──────┬────────────────────────────┐
│          Judge           │ Avg  │       Above median?        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Astrowsky, Brad          │ 94.4 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Blair, Michael C.        │ 97.2 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Blanchard, John L.       │ 95.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Brain, Mark H.           │ 97.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Brooks, Robert I.        │ 95.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Cairo, Sunita A.         │ 98.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Carson, Michelle         │ 92.0 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Como, Gregory S.         │ 97.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Cooper, Katherine M.     │ 95.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Covil, Max-Henri         │ 91.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Culbertson, Kristin      │ 94.0 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Davis, Marvin L.         │ 97.2 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Edelstein, Monica B.     │ 95.6 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Fish, Geoffrey           │ 98.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Fox, Dewain              │ 98.2 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Francis, Jillian B.      │ 91.0 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Gilla, Marischa H.       │ 98.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Green, Jennifer          │ 98.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Guyton, Lauren R.        │ 86.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Harmon, Melody Garland   │ 98.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Herrod, Michael J.       │ 98.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Jackson, Charlene D.     │ 85.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Julian, Melissa I.       │ 96.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Kalman, Amy M.           │ 92.0 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Kiefer, Joseph S.        │ 98.0 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Korbin Steiner, Ronee    │ 96.6 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Kreamer, Joseph C.       │ 98.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ LeMaire, Kerstin G.      │ 99.2 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Martin, Daniel G.        │ 99.6 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Mata, Julie A.           │ 82.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ McCarthy, Steven W.      │ 94.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Moskowitz, Frank W.      │ 96.0 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Myers, Samuel J.         │ 98.6 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Nicholls, Suzanne M.     │ 76.6 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ O'Donnell-Smith, Colleen │ 87.4 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Polk, Jay M.             │ 95.6 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Rassas, Michael Z.       │ 91.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Rogers, Joshua D.        │ 96.4 │ No (exactly at the median) │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Rueter, Jeffrey          │ 97.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Ryan-Touhill, Jennifer   │ 88.8 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Schwartz, Aryeh D.       │ 97.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Viola, Danielle J.       │ 99.4 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Warner, Randall H.       │ 98.0 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Welty, Joseph C.         │ 97.6 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Whitehead, Chuck         │ 97.8 │ Yes                        │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Williams, Paula A.       │ 83.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Wingard, William R.      │ 94.4 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Woo, Cassie B.           │ 92.2 │ No                         │
├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Zabor, Melissa M.        │ 89.4 │ No                         │
└──────────────────────────┴──────┴────────────────────────────┘

Use this at your discretion, let me know if you guys have any questions. Just trying to make it easier to make informed choices.


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Eat/Drink Scott’s deli last day

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120 Upvotes

Scott’s in the background


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Pictures Hey Flagstaff 👋 Love Prescott 🫶

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138 Upvotes

Prescott loves Flagstaff an original Love story


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Outdoors Beautiful hike on Camelback on Saturday!

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125 Upvotes

r/arizona • • 2d ago

Living Here Symphony’s musicians release statement

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1.2k Upvotes

r/arizona • • 2d ago

Pictures Storm and Rainbow near Superstition Mountain yesterday

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148 Upvotes

Taken in Apache Junction


r/arizona • • 2d ago

History Native History request

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A bit north west of Hyder but south of Apache Box, I found a field of rock ambush blinds in the saddle of a hill. Had to be somewhere around 20 of them, with varying elevation and overall size. I did find a single piece of obsidian that looked like someone may have started preparing it, or was just waste from a core, but a single shard isn't particularly telling.

Does anyone know which people may have used this site or where I could go to do some research? Thanks


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Tucson Luxury Accommodations in Tucson

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I took these a few years ago


r/arizona • • 3d ago

Pictures Mornings in Marana, AZ

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1.1k Upvotes

Just an average morning drinking coffee and watching the sunrise. Then, hiss hiss, there were two hot air balloons for good luck. This was the best shot.


r/arizona • • 2d ago

Moving here NBC available in Flagstaff?

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I used to get NBC over the air with my rooftop mounted antenna. It used to be channel 02.1

Did it move or did they stop OTA broadcasting?


r/arizona • • 3d ago

Pictures This morning's sunrise over the Mazatzal Mountains

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137 Upvotes

r/arizona • • 3d ago

Pictures Tuzigoot National Monument

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326 Upvotes

How many of you have a picture from this same spot?


r/arizona • • 3d ago

Pictures White Mountains foliage

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321 Upvotes

Got to visit family in Eagar and hike around a bit. Always love the colors. Made me more excited to move here next summer haha


r/arizona • • 3d ago

Outdoors South Mountain morning

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73 Upvotes

View from the towers


r/arizona • • 4d ago

News Be careful out there folks, always be aware and never drive tired. fatal accident out in Benson on the 10 road closure is estimated for at least 4-6 hours.

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445 Upvotes

r/arizona • • 4d ago

Politics Why is our I Voted sticker completely sauceless?

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605 Upvotes

I mean, if you could’ve designed anything within the parameters of a small sticker with the essential information on it, why would this sad little fella be the first option? Shouldn’t he be glad to participate in the grand civic ritual of desperately googling which judges to retain? It makes me so sad seeing the creative stickers from other states. This was a design job that should’ve been given to a bunch of school kids, who would’ve done beautifully.