Start from 72 curated places around Sedona, AZ, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Mariposa Latin Inspired Grill
Lisa Dahl's bluff-top room on West 89A doing wood-grill Argentine and Peruvian — empanadas, charred elote, paella for two, the best red-rock sunset view of any restaurant in town. Reservations open 30 days out and the prime sunset slots vanish in a morning.
Cress on Oak Creek
L'Auberge's signature creekside room — white tablecloths, French technique, Arizona ingredients, and a tasting-menu format on most nights. The setting (a few feet from Oak Creek under sycamores) is what you're paying for, and it earns it.
Trails & outdoors
Cathedral Rock Trail
1.2 miles round-trip and 700 feet up to the saddle between Cathedral Rock's main spires — Sedona's most photographed hike and the first one most visitors should do. Steep slickrock scramble in the last quarter; not hands-free.
Devil's Bridge Trail
Out-and-back to the largest natural sandstone arch in Sedona — flat dirt road for most of the way, steep stair climb at the end, the famous photo-on-the-arch at the top. Length depends on which trailhead you start from.
Things to do
Pink Jeep Tours Sedona
The original Sedona off-road jeep operator since 1960 — Broken Arrow trail is the flagship and the photos you've seen of nose-down 'staircase' descents are theirs. The hot-pink jeeps look corny; the guides are genuinely good and the ride earns its reputation.
A Day in the West Jeep Tours
Family-run Uptown jeep operator since 1949 — smaller, less-marketed than Pink, with the same trail access and a cowboy-tradition tilt the founder's grandson still leans into. Easier to book on short notice.
Landmarks & sights
Chapel of the Holy Cross
1956 modernist chapel wedged into a 200-foot red sandstone spur south of town, built by sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude and free to enter every day. The drive up the chapel road and the wraparound viewing terrace are the actual attraction; the chapel itself is one quiet room.
Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village
Sycamore-shaded compound of cobbled courtyards modeled on the Guadalajara suburb of the same name, holding 40-plus galleries, a few good restaurants, and the town's most photogenic arches. Wandering it is the activity, not shopping it.