A cooler and calmer beach getaway awaits travelers who wait until the end of the summer to visit Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point, is the closest beach to Arizona.

Visitors enjoy a Saturday on Sandy Beach in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. Esme Hernandez, a local business owner who enjoys traveling to the Mexican beach town of Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Thousands of Arizonans have driven to Puerto Peñasco or Rocky Point and it's become a hot vacation spot. Last year, Arizona and Sonoran governments teamed up to improve the road to ...

When oppressive Phoenix summers prove hard to handle, some desert dwellers flock south to an escape with sugary white sand and crystal blue water. Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, also known as Rocky Point, is ...

Once, it was enough to be Arizona’s beach, a nice wide patch of below-the-border shoreline where college kids could camp out and drink too much. But now, it wants to be more than a parent’s nightmare.

The U.S. State Department has a new warning about travel to Mexico, but little has changed for vacationers headed to Puerto Peñasco (also known as Rocky Point) and other resort towns south of the ...

Mexican authorities are searching for two Americans who went missing after a kayaking trip off the coast of Puerto Peñasco in the Gulf of California, local authorities said late Saturday. Corey Allen ...

Five people were shot dead in a gunfight with Mexican police in the Sonora beach resort of Puerto Peñasco, or Rocky Point, early Wednesday. Sonora Attorney General Carlos Navarro said the gunfight ...

It was a scene that even Jack Nicklaus couldn’t have envisioned when he designed the Peninsula de Cortes Golf Club. As golfers contemplated their tee shot, they were having a hard time focusing. To ...

PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico — Tacky T-shirts, NFL blankets, tequila and tchotchkes galore are peddled to tourists on the seaside Malecon. Glenn Dennis prefers to catch his souvenirs. The haul on a trip ...