Sedona Map: Sights, Trails, Free Spots and Day Trips

Sedona runs along two highways that meet at a roundabout junction in Uptown: SR-89A comes in from the west through West Sedona and continues north through Oak Creek Canyon toward Flagstaff, and SR-179 runs south from that same junction through the Village of Oak Creek toward the I-17 interchange. Almost everything on this map sits within a few minutes of one of those two roads. There is no separate downtown grid to learn, just a long strip along 89A and a shorter one along 179.

Uptown, at the northern end where the two highways meet, is the one genuinely walkable cluster: the shops and galleries around North Highway 89A are close enough to park once and cover on foot, and the Sedona Heritage Museum and Chapel of the Holy Cross are a short drive rather than a walk from there. West Sedona, the stretch of 89A running west from Uptown, is spread along the highway rather than walkable. Tlaquepaque, the Amitabha Stupa and most of the trailhead access roads branch off this section by car. South on SR-179 toward the Village of Oak Creek is where Bell Rock, Courthouse Butte, the Chapel access road and Red Rock State Park sit, all reached by car, not on foot from Uptown.

A few clusters on this map are close enough to park once and see more than one pin: the Bell Rock Vista trailhead serves both the Bell Rock Pathway and the Courthouse Butte Loop from the same lot, and the Dry Creek Vista/Chuckwagon trailhead area serves Devil's Bridge (the longer approach), Fay Canyon and Doe Mountain from parking within a short drive of each other along Dry Creek Road. Tlaquepaque and the Sedona Heritage Museum sit close enough in Uptown/the south end of the historic district that a single visit can cover both without much extra driving.

Every trailhead pin on this map needs its own parking pass or the free shuttle: a Red Rock Pass displayed on the dashboard, an Interagency (America the Beautiful) pass, or riding the Sedona Shuttle to the trailheads it serves, which closes those lots to private vehicles while it runs. Red Rock Pass covers what the pass is for and which trailheads need it. The two Arizona State Parks on this map, Slide Rock and Red Rock State Park, are the exception to that rule twice over: neither accepts the Red Rock Pass, each charges its own per-vehicle entrance fee at a staffed gate, and neither is covered by the Interagency Pass either, since that pass is a federal program and these are state parks.

Terracotta sights all charge a fee and all publish their own hours. The museum and the two state parks are the three on this map. Juniper-green free pins cost nothing to visit, though the Chapel and the Stupa are both donation-supported, not free in the sense of having no box to drop something in.

Brown trailhead pins are Forest Service land: no entrance fee at the trailhead itself, but a parking pass is expected at eight of the eleven, and the two state-park exceptions above are marked as sights rather than trailheads because their fee structure is different. Turquoise marks Tlaquepaque, the one shopping and dining village on this map, free to walk, with paid parking generally not enforced there. Plum marks the eight day trips that leave Sedona entirely; none of them is walkable from any other pin on this map, which is the whole reason they get their own colour and their own page.