Travel Guide

📍: Sedona, Arizona

✈️: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

🚙: Rented a convertible from Enterprise Rentals at the airport. Found this to be the cheapest. It was the easiest airport rental I have ever dealt with. Highly recommend adding the insurance it was only about $40 extra and covered literally everything. About a 2 hour drive to Sedona. Views are amazing, so don’t worry!

☀️: weather was perfect! 50-75 degrees Fahrenheit in April. Loved driving the scenic loop with the top down!

🥾: get hiking boots if you plan on doing any rock scrambling!!! Will go into detail…

⚠️: when hiking think sunrise/sunset that is when it is least busy and you will not have to stand in lines for pictures or feel rushed when climbing rocks.

⚠️: download the “AllTrails” App. Helped us find better trails and most importantly not get lost.

1. Devil’s Brige Trail

• Parked at mescal parking lot & took Chuck Wagon Trail (the other trail is where vehicles and ATVs go making the trail very dusty)

• took about two hours 30min total (4 miles) there and back with lots of picture taking.

• last 10 minutes you are climbing rocks this is not scary it’s more like stairs of rocks!

2. Airport Mesa Loop Trail

• most panoramic scenery of Sedona

• introductory hike, no climbing, more of a trail

• about 3.3 miles & took 2 hours

• hiked in the morning as well as watched the sunset at the energy vortex

3. Raven Cave’s Trail

• very short trail about 0.5 miles

• towards end go to left down the hill and around to the right to the front of caves OR

• go straight all the way and will do some rock climbing down (we did this, it was very easy & shorter)

• walk through the caves and get some nice views

4. Slide Rock State Park

• trail 1.0 mile

• can pack lunch eat on river, pack swimsuit and take a dip in the water (it is freezing)

• nice scenic drive on the way

• cost $20 per car of 4 people or less to get in

5. Chapel of The Holy Cross

• drove by to look at, but did not hike

• beautiful from the outside at the bottom of the trail

6. Cathedral Rock

• 1 mile hike round trip & are climbing some stairs

• one of the seven energy vortex’s

• we did not make it to the top. Have to do major rock climbing/scrambling at the top, so make sure you’re wearing hiking boots and have absolutely nothing in your hands. Definitely will have to slide on butt coming down. I plan on going back to achieve this hike!

• climbed half way and still got a nice view

7. Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village

• cutest place to enjoy some art & shopping

• eat breakfast at Pump House it was my favorite

Last get the convertible you won’t regret it! 🩷 I hope this is helpful and let me know how it goes 🥂

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