Sedona has many canyons and pine forests, but the most stunning landscape here is the many red rock limestone formations that can be found almost everywhere. It’s the Red Rock Country. The stone formations always have a deep red color, which only intensifies in the light of the sun. Sedona has been named one of the most beautiful places in America because of its mesmerizing scenery that changes hourly with light shifting. Native Americans have always regarded Sedona as a place of healing and renewal, which continues to be true as they still value this land as sacred. Sedona is surrounded by 1.8 million acres of national forest land, and no matter where you are in Sedona, you are never far from breathtaking scenery.

Sedona is a true oasis, a vacationer’s paradise in the middle of the Arizona desert. Sedona is the hiking and biking capital in the USA. Bell Rock and Oak Creek Canyon are great hiking spots, and the dramatic architecture of the Chapel of the Holy Cross is a religious experience itself. Sedona is also famous for spas, art galleries, and healing centers. Sedona’s Southwest-style architecture, thanks to strict building codes, forces even the local McDonalds and supermarkets to feature gorgeous. 

Sedona is a lush desert for various cacti ranging from tiny hedgehogs up to spiny prickly pears as you roll down the trail. However, Sedona’s hills look more like a deep forest than a desert. When you get up close, you’ll realize that the pines covering the hillsides are small, scraggly, desert pinions; nevertheless, they lend Sedona a feel more akin to a forested mountain range than a windswept desert. Adding to the lushness of Sedona is the ever-flowing Oak Creek that runs through the bottom of the valley that brings you into a radically different ecosystem filled with tall grasses, lush undergrowth, and even deciduous trees that, yes, including oaks.