Sedona offers a lot to its visitors. Sedona retreats and Sedona spiritual retreats are quite popular among the tourists. The spiritual retreats there allow you to boost your spiritual growth and personal enlightenment. Aside from retreats, here visitors can enjoy hiking, art galleries, shopping, fine hotels and restaurants, and nice formation of red rocks. Here you can rent a jeep or can play tennis or golf. Red Rock State Park and the Chapel of the Holy Cross are the places that one must in one’s life. In short, there are endless possibilities and one thing is certain about Sedona that you will definitely like to visit it again.

Sedona was first settled by Native Americans around 6000 years back. The Hopi Indians used to live caves and grew enough food to sustain them. If we consider Sedona low yearly rainfall, it’s not a small feat. It was in 1876 when the first white settlers appeared in and around Sedona. T.C. Schenbly first opened Sedona’s first post office in 1902. Sedona was the name of Schenbly’s wife. In the beginning, there were around twenty families that inhabited the area.

Around the 1950’s Sedona became a heaven for artists and it serves as the home to many creative and eclectic types even today. Some interesting facts about Sedona are as follow.

The population of Sedona is around 20,000 and its altitude is around 4,400 feet above sea level. Its average temperature is 75 degrees. Average rainfall is recoded about 17.15 inches here. It is 2048 miles away from Washington DC.

Almost 51% land of Sedona is owned by private owners, while the rest of land is owned by the Coconino National Forest. Coffee Pot Rock is the highest point in Sedona which is 5600 feet high and Oak Creek is the lowest point with 4000 feet. Around two to four million tourists visit Sedona every year.