Audio walking tour
Sedona Audio Walking Tour
Sedona Stroll: Red Rocks, Vortexes, and Village Charm
- Stops
- 4
- Core walk
- 3 of 4 stops within 1.5 mi of the center
- Farthest stop
- 1.7 mi from the center
- Start
- Airport Mesa
Listen free
Four stops gather Sedona into a short tour through its red-rock landscape. Airport Mesa opens the route at a scenic overlook where the 1.5-mile Brewer Trail and the 3.2-mile Airport Loop Trail converge above town. The Sedona Ranger Station, a 1917 wood-frame Forest Service bungalow on a sandstone foundation, administered the Red Rock Ranger District of Coconino National Forest from this spot; the Civilian Conservation Corps added the barn and pump house in 1935. Tlaquepaque, founded in 1973 by Abe Miller on a former sycamore grove straddling Oak Creek, now gathers eighteen art galleries and forty-five shops on either side of State Route 179. The Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole on the Soldier Pass Trail closes the tour at a chasm roughly 660 feet deep that first opened in the late 1880s. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
Highlights
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Devil's Kitchen Sinkhole
The ground gives way ahead of you here on the Soldier Pass Trail, deep in the Coconino National Forest outside Sedona, Arizona. Formed in the late 1880s, with an initial collapse noted in the early 1880s, this is one of at least seven sinkholes surrounding the city.
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TlaquepaqueHere, State Route 179 splits Tlaquepaque into two halves straddling Oak Creek. Located on either side of State Route 179 as it crosses Oak Creek, a tributary of the Verde River, this place was founded in 1973 by Abe Miller as an artists' commune on land that had been a sycamore grove owned by Harry and Ruby Girard.
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Airport MesaBeneath your feet, red rock trails converge at Airport Mesa, Sedona's scenic overlook cut into the Arizona high desert. From this lookout you are about 300 yards (900 ft) to the northeast of, and slightly below, Sedona Airport, so the airport sits just up the slope from you.
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Sedona Ranger StationAhead of you sits the Sedona Ranger Station, a wood-frame bungalow the U.S. Forest Service built in 1917 to administer the Red Rock Ranger District of Coconino National Forest in Sedona, Arizona. The complex you see was conceived as a working hub: a residence, a barn and a pump house.
All 4 stops
How it works
Open on your phone
No download. Works in Safari or Chrome.
Start walking
Head toward any historic stop. No fixed route.
Audio plays itself
Walk within range of a stop and the story begins.
Three stops free. No account needed.
Gear for walking Sedona
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