Living in Sedona since the early 1990s, I have seen a lot of changes. Visitors increasingly lament how roads and houses encroach on the hillsides and ridgelines. Landscape photographers moan and grumble, then go to work using the rolling hills and …
Wildflowers in Sedona
The best show of color bursts forth from March to May--especially after a wet November and December. The blooms of claret cup cactus and Indian paintbrush often appear first, followed by prickly pear, beavertail, and strawberry hedgehog cactus. On …
Sedona’s Red Rocks, Part 2
Next is the Hermit Formation (formerly called Hermit Shale), which contains more amounts of mudstone than sandstone and thus weathers into a broad terrace upon which much of the city of Sedona is constructed. Many of the easy or moderate trails …