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Oak Creek Canyon ~ Sedona Neighborhood Profile
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As you leave Sedona north on Hwy 89A you enter Oak Creek Canyon. The drive is considered among the most scenic in the United States. The road follows Oak Creek for much of the journey through the Canyon.
Sedona is at an elevation of approximately 4,500-feet. The top of the Mogollon Rim is approximately 6,500-feet. As you drive up the Canyon you will notice climatic and accompanying botanical changes -- tall pine trees and cooler temperatures. You are leaving the high desert of Sedona.
You will pass small residential subdivisions, individual homes, lodging businesses with restaurants, a Sedona fire station, a trout farm, Slide Rock State Park, a public water spring and numerous campgrounds and trailheads.
Living in the Canyon means that you are not alone. With it's babbling Oak Creek, towering Red Rock cliffs and scented pine forest, the Canyon is meant to be shared.
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Slide Rock Arizona State Park
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