Sedona Hiking Information and Resources

There are a lot of excellent web sites and books that can help visitors find information about hikes.  Because there are so many trails and so much information available it makes it difficult to decide which trail to take. There are several different visitor centers in the Sedona area, and the rangers and docents are always very helpful.  The National Forest Visitor Center along route 179 just South of Village of Oak Creek has lots of good information.  The visitor center in "Uptown Sedona" next to the Hyatt timeshare is also an excellent spot to stop.
Here are some of the web sites:

• William F. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Physics at The Ohio State University has this web site, which has a lot of the Sedona trails listed alphabetically along with a trail description, map and photos. 
• Great Sedona Hikes by William Bohan, at this URL has a database of hikes with the ability to sort by difficulty and alphabetic. It also identifies ones near water, near vortexes etc. The site also has descriptions and maps of the trails 
• The Hike House web site: www.hikehouse.com has trails as well as videos that could be helpful for someone trying to select a trail to explore. 
• The Red Rock Country Map published by the Coconino National Forest provides an excellent overview of many of the trails in the area. I found a copy on this blog web site. The Forest service also has excellent descriptions and maps at this link, and you can choose between day hikes and overnight hikes 
• This Blog: http://arizonahiking.blogspot.com/ has over 500 Arizona trails indexed. It was created by Mare Czinar, who writes a regular column (Including "hike of the week") for several Arizona newspapers. Her site has quite a few of the Sedona area trails, and seems to be more up-to-date than some of the others. For example, it includes "Adobe Jack" trailhead that was opened in 2012 along with the trails throughout that basin. 

There is also an application for iPhone or Android that specializes in Sedona Hikes an now has 74 trails cataloged.  It is called:  -- "Sedona Hiking App"  Apparently new hikes are added periodically, since I just received an email (from Jon Clayton info@sedonahikingapp.com ) that described Turkey Creek Trail as being added to the app.