Arizona’s Autumnal Canvas

Arizona’s Autumnal Canvas The autumnal equinox heralds the beginning of fall and cooler weather in the Northern Hemisphere. As daylight hours decrease, deciduous tree leaves change color from cool greens to warm shades of orange, red and yellow before falling to the ground. Orange is the color of transformation, and fall is the harvest season […]

Savoring the September Wine Festival in Verde Valley

Savoring the September Wine Festival in Verde Valley Sedona is renowned for its red rocks, but have you tasted the red wines? Or the whites, rosés and sparkling wines? It’s wild to think of vineyards in the desert, but over the last 50 years, Arizona growers discovered three distinct regions in the state with superb […]

The Beauty of Monsoon Season in Arizona

The Beauty of Monsoon Season in Arizona If you’ve never experienced Sedona and the high desert landscape during monsoon season in Arizona, you’re missing out on one of nature’s most dramatic spectacles. Running from mid-June to the end of September, the season is short, the thunderstorms intense, and both are unpredictable. This uniquely Southwestern phenomenon […]

Stargazing at Ambiente

Stargazing at Ambiente Sedona is the rare city that’s ideal for stargazing. Dark and clear nights, no light pollution, and thinner air (thanks to a high elevation of approximately 4500 feet above sea level), make stargazing Sedona as easy as looking up. Seeing a night sky like this for the first time is breathtakingly beautiful. […]

Sedona Wellness Tradition

Sedona Wellness Tradition To be well in body and mind, one must take time out to decompress, rest and recharge.   Sedona is an ideal place for such a retreat. It has long been a powerful place for spiritual renewal, from the Native American tribes–Sinagua, Yavapai-Apache, Hopi and Navajo who first inhabited the area–to New Agers […]

Verde Valley is for Foodies

Verde Valley is for Foodies It’s easy to be a locavore in Sedona. Surrounded by the Verde Valley, known as the breadbasket of Arizona, the area is blessed with an abundance of agricultural bounty for Sedona Arizona food. The Verde Valley is one of the richest agricultural regions in the Southwest. It stretches for 714 […]

Sedona as Art Mecca

Sedona as Art Mecca When artist Max Ernst saw Sedona for the first time in 1941, he recognized it immediately. He had been painting it all his life but never knew such a place existed. Ernst was a pioneer of the Surrealist movement, a style inspired by dreams and expressions that came from the unconscious […]

Red Rock Country

Red Rock Country Invariably, the first question out of the mouths of visitors is, why are the rocks red in Sedona? Approximately 20-square-miles of mammoth red mesas, sheer cliffs, monoliths, buttes and spires make up what is known as Sedona’s red rock country, one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world. Imagine a palette […]

Sedona Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Sedona Like You’ve Never Seen it Before Lounging on the bed outside, my eyes are feasting on the Milky Way above as I try to pick out constellations and planets from the billions of stars around me in the Dark Sky Community of Sedona. Venus is dazzling between the horns of Taurus the bull; there’s […]