Explore Sedona

The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1956 into a red sandstone butte south of central Sedona. Commissioned by the sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude, it is a concrete structure whose front is formed by a tall cross, with a glass wall looking over the red rocks. It belongs to the parish of St. John Vianney and holds weekly prayer services.

Cathedral Rock is a red sandstone butte with spires on the south-west side of Sedona, in the Coconino National Forest. Oak Creek flows past its base at Red Rock Crossing, where it is often photographed reflected in the water. A short but steep trail of about 1.9 km round trip climbs over bare rock to a saddle between the spires.

Red Rock State Park is a nature preserve of about 116 hectares along Oak Creek, south-west of Sedona. Run by Arizona State Parks with a focus on environmental education, it has about 8 km of trails through creekside woodland and up to viewpoints over the red rocks and Cathedral Rock, a visitor centre and ranger-led walks.

Bell Rock is a bell-shaped red sandstone butte beside State Route 179, between the Village of Oak Creek and Sedona, in the Coconino National Forest. Trails such as the Bell Rock Pathway circle its base, and visitors can scramble partway up its lower ledges; nearby Courthouse Butte rises just to the east.

Slide Rock State Park lies in Oak Creek Canyon about 11 km north of Sedona. Its centre is a natural water slide: a stretch of creek about 25 metres long running down a smooth, slippery channel in the red sandstone bed, used for swimming in summer. The park also preserves the Pendley homestead, an early 20th-century apple farm with orchards.