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Sedona (/ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n ə / si-DOH-nə) is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,031. [3] It is within the Coconino National Forest. Sedona's main attraction is its array of red sandstone ...
Capitol Butte is located three miles immediately northwest of Sedona in the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness, on land managed by Coconino National Forest.The nearest higher neighbor is Lost Wilson Mountain 3.1 miles (5 km) to the north-northeast.
Village of Oak Creek is an unincorporated community located within Big Park, a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population was 6,147 at the 2010 census, up from 5,245 in 2000.
The location of Arizona in the United States. Arizona is a landlocked state situated in the southwestern region of the United States of America.It has a vast and diverse geography famous for its deep canyons, high- and low-elevation deserts, numerous natural rock formations, and volcanic mountain ranges.
The Rim is an escarpment defining the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau. [4]: 1189 Its central and most spectacular portions are characterized by high cliffs of limestone and sandstone, namely the Kaibab Limestone and Coconino Sandstone cliffs.
Sedona, Arizona and Oak Creek Canyon lie on the south-central border of the Plateau. Many but not all of the Sedona area's cliff formations are protected as wilderness (Red Rock State Park and Coconino National Forest). The area has the visual appeal of a national park, but with a small, rapidly growing town in the center.
The Sedona McDonald's has become a major tourist attraction, with many visitors coming from all over the world to pose for pictures by the one-of-a-kind signage:
Clockwise from upper left: Sedona, Grand Canyon National Park, Barringer Crater, Petrified Forest National Park The geology of Arizona began to form in the Precambrian . Igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock may have been much older, but was overwritten during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies in the Proterozoic .