About MapOfSedona.com
MapOfSedona.com is a small, independent guide to Sedona, Arizona. No business pays to appear on it. Every fee, distance, coordinate and rule is traced to the agency that publishes it — the Forest Service, the City of Sedona, Arizona State Parks — and each page carries the date we last checked.
How we source things
Sedona is unusually easy to get wrong, and most of what's written about it is copied from other guides rather than from the agencies that set the rules. That's how a stale $12 fee, or a parking prohibition that doesn't exist, ends up on a hundred sites at once.
So the rules here are simple. Trail distances and elevation come from the Forest Service's own trail pages, not from crowdsourced app averages — which is why our numbers are sometimes lower than what you'll see elsewhere. Fees and pass rules come from fs.usda.gov, sedonaaz.gov, sedonashuttle.com and azstateparks.com. Coordinates are the official published trailhead coordinates, converted from the agency's own figures.
And where an official source is silent, we say so. The Forest Service doesn't publish parking capacity for almost any Sedona trailhead — only Soldier Pass, at 14 spaces. So you won't find a confident "about 40 spaces, fills at 6:45am" on this site, because nobody official knows that and we don't either.
What we'll tell you that other guides won't
A few examples of what that policy produces:
We say the widely-repeated claim that Dry Creek Vista and Mescal ban private vehicles isn't supported by any official source — only Cathedral Rock and Soldier Pass are.
We flag that whether Soldier Pass requires a Red Rock Pass is genuinely unclear from Forest Service documentation, rather than picking an answer.
We note that the Yavapai-Apache origin-story association with Boynton Canyon, though repeated everywhere, isn't something we could trace to a primary source.
We don't quote a dollar figure for the fine for not displaying a Red Rock Pass, because the number circulating online comes from a 2010 court case rather than a current fee schedule.
None of that is as satisfying as a confident answer. It's more useful.
Corrections
Sedona changes — fee schedules, shuttle routes, and above all closures. If something here is out of date or wrong, we want to know, particularly if you have an official source or a photo of current signage. Corrections get made and the verification date on the page gets updated.
This site is part of a small network of independent local guides that includes bigbearmap.com, lakearrowheadmap.com, and trailheadparking.com.
Facts on this page last verified July 28, 2026. Fees, hours, and access rules change seasonally — confirm with the official source before a long drive.