Sedona Arizona Hotels
Hotels in Sedona Arizona are often required for tourists who want accommodation in the city. Some tourists may want to see the culture, the entertainment, the historic areas, landscapes of the city. Some may want to see the well known landscapes that attract may tourists to the area. Some may want to enjoy the cultural events in the area. Visitors may select hotels by different criteria, prices, quality, status, distance for tourist attractions, views, access.
Sedona is a city and community that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the USA state of Arizona.
The famous red rocks of Sedona are formed by a layer of rock known as the Schnebly Hill Formation. The Schnebly Hill Formation is a thick layer of red to orange-colored sandstone found only in the Sedona vicinity.
Sedona's main attraction is its stunning array of red sandstone formations, the Red Rocks of Sedona. The formations are said to appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun.
The
Yavapai-Apache tribe were forcefully removed from the Verde Valley in 1876, to
the San Carlos Indian Reservation, 180 miles southeast. 1500 people were marched,
in midwinter, to San Carlos. Several hundred lost their lives. The survivors were
interned for 25 years. About 200 Yavapai-Apache people returned to the Verde Valley
in 1900.
Arizona has had a McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona that has turquoise
arches. They were not made yellow because the city thought they would mesh poorly
with the surrounding red rocks. The first color McDonalds offered was turquoise
which the city accepted.
The first Anglo settler moved into Oak Creek Canyon in 1879. The early settlers were farmers and ranchers. Oak Creek Canyon was well-known for its apple orchards. In 1902, when the Sedona post office was established, there were 55 residents. In the mid-1950s, the first telephone directory listed 155 names. Parts of the Sedona area weren't electrified until the 1960s.
Sedona began to develop as a tourist destination, vacation-home and retirement center in the 1950s. Most of the development seen today was constructed in the 1980s and 1990s.
Uptown Sedona (the part in Coconino County) and West Sedona (the Yavapai County portion) form the City of Sedona. Originally founded in 1902, the town was incorporated into a city in January 1988. The Village of Oak Creek, despite its location seven miles to the south and outside Sedona city limits, is a significant part of the community.
Big Park is in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population was 5,245 at the 2000 census. Big Park is more commonly known as the Village of Oak Creek (VOC), and is a bedroom community for Sedona, Arizona. Tourism and service to retirees and second-home owners are the basis for the local economy. Big Park, the pioneers' name for the large open area that became the Village of Oak Creek in the early 1960s, is set among scenic red-rock buttes and canyons.
Oak Creek Canyon is a 20 km long river gorge located along the Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona located between the cities of Flagstaff and Sedona.
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 48 km long north-south normal fault line, is thought to have played a role as well.
Below Sedona, Oak Creek enters more open country. It meanders past the communities of Page Springs and Cornville, Arizona, and reaches its confluence with the Verde River about 10 km southeast of Cottonwood, Arizona
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