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Sedona & Verde Valley

Things to see in Sedona & Verde Valley

15 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.

A dirt trail through grassland and cottonwood trees at Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Cottonwood · State Parks

Dead Horse Ranch State Park

Lagoons, Verde River access, camping and over 20 miles of shared-use trails
Commanding Officer's Quarters with its shingled mansard roof at Fort Verde State Historic Park

Camp Verde · Historic Sites

Fort Verde State Historic Park

The best-preserved Indian Wars fort in Arizona, with original 1870s buildings around a parade ground
The white adobe Douglas Mansion at Jerome State Historic Park

Jerome · Museums

Jerome State Historic Park

The 1916 Douglas Mansion, now a museum of Jerome's copper mines and the family that got rich from them
The log Governor's Mansion of 1864 under a large tree at the Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott

Prescott · Historic Sites

Sharlot Hall Museum

Arizona's first Governor's Mansion and other territorial buildings on a four-acre campus
Visitors on the red sandstone shelves along Oak Creek at Slide Rock State Park

Sedona · Historic Sites

Slide Rock State Park

An 80-foot natural water chute below a historic apple orchard in Oak Creek Canyon
Montezuma Castle cliff dwelling in an alcove of a pale limestone cliff

Camp Verde · Historic Sites

Montezuma Castle National Monument

A five-story, 20-room Sinagua cliff dwelling set high in a limestone wall
The Chapel of the Holy Cross and its cross-shaped facade rising from red rock in Sedona

Sedona · Architectural Landmarks

Chapel of the Holy Cross

A 1956 Catholic chapel built around a giant cross, rising from a red rock outcrop
Low stone walls of the Tuzigoot pueblo above the green Verde Valley

Cottonwood · Historic Sites

Tuzigoot National Monument

A 110-room Sinagua pueblo on a limestone ridge above the Verde River
The dark water of Montezuma Well inside its limestone sinkhole under a stormy sky

Camp Verde · National Parks

Montezuma Well

A limestone sinkhole holding 15 million gallons, with endemic species and cliff rooms at its rim
Pictographs on a red rock wall at Palatki Heritage Site near Sedona

Sedona · Historic Sites

Palatki Heritage Site

Reservation-only guided tours of a red rock cliff dwelling and rock art northwest of Sedona
Cathedral Rock's twin red spires rising above juniper woodland near Sedona

Sedona · Natural Wonders

Cathedral Rock

Sedona's most recognizable formation, with a short, steep scramble to the saddle
Spirals, turtles and human figures pecked into dark sandstone at the Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site

Camp Verde · Historic Sites

Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site

Over 1,000 Sinagua petroglyphs on Beaver Creek, known until 2024 as V Bar V