Spend any amount of time out in the desert, and chances are you've encountered a jumping cholla. It happens to the best of us. The cylindropuntia fulgida, AKA chain-fruit or jumping cholla, has a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most popular trails in Phoenix is reopening. Cholla Trail, on the east side of Camelback Mountain, reopens on Friday, ...

Elena Acoba Special To The Arizona Daily Star Apr 8, 2012 Apr 8, 2012 One of the earliest crops of the season is ready for harvest. Flower buds from staghorn, buckhorn and pencil cholla have a subtle ...

Spring has once again returned to the deserts of North America, and with her return, so too have the amazing colorful blooms of desert wildflowers and cacti. Because of the winter rains, this land, so ...

The Phoenix Parks and Recreation department declines to provide any timeline for when Camelback Mountain’s popular Cholla Trail will reopen, but says plans to relocate the trailhead could be finalized ...

Newcomers to the desert are having horrible accidents with cholla. One was a golfer who fell into one making a shot in the rough. Another mountain biker got flipped into major cholla and had to be ...

FORT McDOWELL, Ariz. — If you play either — or both — courses at We-Ko-Pa in the Sonoran desert just outside Scottsdale, Ariz., and find yourself hopelessly absorbed in your golf game, stop. Just take ...

One of the most popular trails in Phoenix is reopening. Cholla Trail, on the east side of Camelback Mountain, reopens on Friday, Sept. 30, after a 2½-year closure. The trail was closed for ...