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Sycamore Canyon is the second largest canyon in the Arizona redrock country, after Oak Creek Canyon. The 21-mile (34 km) long scenic canyon reaches a maximum width of about 7 miles (11 km). It is in North Central Arizona bordering and below the Mogollon Rim, and is located west and northwest of Sedona in Yavapai and Coconino counties.
Red Rock State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a red sandstone canyon outside the city of Sedona.The main mission of this day-use park is the preservation of the riparian habitat along Oak Creek.
The Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness is a 47,195-acre (19,099 ha) wilderness area located within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. [ 1 ] The wilderness is predominantly wind and water sculpted pinnacles, windows, arches , and slot canyons , and the red-rock cliffs of the Mogollon Rim that mark the edge of the ...
State Route 179, also known as SR 179, the Red Rock Scenic Byway, a north–south state highway in Arizona, United States, running from Interstate 17 to SR 89A in Sedona, entering Coconino County from Yavapai County.
Red Rock is a place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Red Rock is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southwest of Sedona. Red Rock Crossing is a former ford across Oak Creek with views of Cathedral Rock. The crossing was washed out in a flood in 1978, [2] and there are no current plans to reopen it to automobile traffic.
Sedona is located in the interior chaparral, semi-desert grassland, Great Basin conifer woodland biomes of northern Arizona. [17] Sedona has mild winters and warm summers. [18] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 19.2 square miles (49.7 km 2) of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.22%, is water. [3]
State Route 89A (SR 89A) is an 83.85-mile (134.94 km) state highway that runs from Prescott north to Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona.The highway begins at SR 89 in Yavapai County and heads northward from Prescott Valley, entering Jerome.
Oak Creek, a tributary of the Verde River, flows along the bottom of the canyon, and is one of the few perennial streams in the high desert region of northern Arizona. Oak Creek is largely responsible for carving the modern Oak Creek Canyon, although movement along the Oak Creek Fault, a 30-mile (48 km) long north–south normal fault line, is thought to have played a role as well.