SEDONA · ARIZONA
Red rocks, vortex country, the long view.
Jeep trails through the red rocks, vortex sites, day trips to the Grand Canyon and Antelope Canyon, dark-sky stargazing and the wine country to the south.
Only in Sedona
Three things you can’t do anywhere else.
Hiking and helicopter rides exist in every Western US destination. These three don’t. The vortexes, the red-rock 4x4 trails, the Dark Sky stargazing. Each one is specific to this stretch of Arizona. Plan the rest of the trip around them.
World vortex capital
The Four Sedona Vortexes
Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa. Whether you feel the swirl or not, the four named vortexes are some of Arizona's most striking rock formations, and Sedona has built an industry around them that exists nowhere else. Most guides combine a vortex stop with the geology and the photography.
- 1 Explore Sedona’s Vortexes: 2.5 Hour Jeep Tour of Mysticism
- 2 Sedona Vortex Odyssey – A Spiritual & Scientific Adventure
- 3 Tour to Sacred Sites and Vortexes in Sedona
Where Pink Jeep started
Red Rock 4x4 Country
The Pink Jeep brand was founded in Sedona in 1960. The trails it runs — Broken Arrow, Diamondback Gulch, Soldier Pass — thread between formations that exist nowhere else on earth. The bouncy red-dirt rides are the iconic Sedona day out, and most other operators here follow the same playbook.
- 1 Mogollon Rim Run Supreme Jeep Tour from Sedona
- 2 PRIVATE Sedona Jeep Tour 2-hour Lil’ Rattler Off-Road
- 3 PRIVATE Sedona Jeep Tour 7 Sacred Pools – Soldier’s Pass Trail
Dark Sky community
Stargazing Under Protected Skies
Sedona is an International Dark Sky Community — strict lighting ordinances keep the night sky among the darkest of any US town its size. Add a telescope guide on a clear night and the Milky Way reads as a bright stripe overhead, not a faint smudge.
- 1 Sedona Stargazing Tours LLC
- 2 The Original Sedona UFO and Stargazing Night Tour
- 3 The Night Sky Star Story, Galaxy, and Sedona Story Tour
The iconic Sedona day
If you only do one day in Sedona.
The classic Sedona itinerary. Red rocks, vortex stops, and the overlooks visitors come for. The day trip Sedona is built around.
The classics
Sedona's Most Popular Day Tours
Jeep trails, vortex sites, helicopter rides, Grand Canyon runs. The day tours Sedona is built around.
Beyond the red rocks
Use Sedona as your basecamp.
Grand Canyon is two hours north. Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend three hours up. The Verde Canyon Railway and the ghost town of Jerome sit south. Four day trips most people take from a Sedona room rather than the other way around.
By red rock
Pick a piece of red rock country.
Cathedral for the cliffs. Boynton for the canyon. Soldiers Pass for the pools. Oak Creek for the cool drive. Each formation runs its own kind of day.
By activity
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Jeep through the red rocks. Helicopter over the canyon. Vortex tour at sunset. Wine in the Verde Valley. Stargaze when the town goes dark.
When the lights go out
Sedona after dark.
International Dark Sky country. UFO sightings have been logged here since the 1940s. Three picks for the night-side of Sedona — the ones we’d book if we had one evening to spend.
Vortex & spirit
The other reason people come to Sedona.
Energy sites, meditation guides, the four named vortexes. Our shortlist for the spiritual itinerary — the three we’d send a friend to first.
Where Pink Jeep began
The red-dirt days.
Broken Arrow, Diamondback Gulch, Soldier Pass — the trail names every Sedona driver knows. Three jeep tours we’d put on any first-time itinerary, ranked by traveller popularity.
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