Near Sedona, Arizona, visitors can find a red-rock haven with creekside trails for all kinds of hikers, nighttime events, and ...

This 2018 photo shows the town of Sedona, Arizona, seen from the Airport Mesa Loop Trail. From left to right are Thunder Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Coffee Pot Rock. The sleepy Arizona town of Sedona has ...

SEDONA, Ariz. — The rock formation known as Kachina Woman rises like an obelisk out of a cool green canyon. At its base, more than three dozen women are tucked into crevices in the rust-colored stone, ...

The Grand Canyon in northern Arizona is listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Colorado River, running through it for approximately six million years, has established ...

On a clear spring day, my mother and I hiked an unmarked spur trail to Subway Cave, in Boynton Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. As we scrambled up a cliff to the cave’s opening, we heard a little boy ask ...

Vortexes draw New Age practioners like moths seeking the light. These areas scattered among the red rocks outside a small Arizona city are said to be swirling centers of energy — sometimes magnetic, ...

The distinctive red-rock formations and hauntingly beautiful high-desert scenery of Coconino National Forest draw travelers to Sedona, no doubt, but it’s an ineffable something that spiritualists have ...

Western Bureau Chief for Courthouse News Service since 2014. San Francisco Federal Reporter and Northern California Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2014. Passionate about photography, camping and history.

SEDONA, Ariz. – I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d find the vortex. I had traveled ...