Cathedral Rock Trailhead Parking
Shuttle-only Thu–Sun
Red Rock Pass Mon–Wed
Closed to private vehicles Thu–Sun, 7am–5:30pm. Drive-up Mon–Wed with a Red Rock Pass.
Details, fees & parking →Sedona Trailhead Parking: Which Lots You Can Actually Use (2026)
Sedona parking has one rule that catches almost everyone: at Cathedral Rock and Soldier Pass, the trailhead lots are closed to private vehicles whenever the shuttle is running (Thursday–Sunday). That's it — that's the whole official list. Plenty of guides claim Dry Creek Vista and Mescal are closed too; the official Sedona Shuttle trailhead-routes page says no such thing. Those lots are just small and fill early, which is a capacity problem, not a legal one.
Dry Creek Vista Parking (Devil's Bridge)
Lot open
Dry Creek Trail closed
Cars NOT banned (a myth)
The lot and Route 11 are open, but Dry Creek Trail No. 52 is closed. Private cars aren't officially banned here.
Details, fees & parking →Soldier Pass Trailhead Parking
Open
Only 14 spaces
Gated nightly
14 spaces, the only official count in Sedona. Gated Thu–Sun and overnight; Route 14 is operating.
Details, fees & parking →Bell Rock & Courthouse Vista Parking
Open
No shuttle restriction
Restrooms
Three lots, no shuttle restriction, restrooms at two. The easiest major trailhead in Sedona to actually use.
Details, fees & parking →Uptown Sedona Parking
Free lots available
Meters 9am–6pm
Four free all-day lots exist — most visitors never find them and feed a meter on Main Street instead.
Details, fees & parking →What the Forest Service actually publishes
Almost nothing, is the honest answer. Of every major Sedona trailhead, Soldier Pass is the only one with an official published space count — 14 spaces. Every "~40 spaces, fills by 7am" figure you'll read elsewhere (including for Cathedral Rock and Dry Creek Vista) traces back to hikers counting cars, not to the agency.
We'd rather tell you that than print a confident number we can't stand behind. Where we list a capacity, we say where it came from; where we don't have one, we say that too.