Day 2

State Forest Road 525 Sedona, Arizona

We began our day at the Sedona Visitor Center. 

The woman that we spoke with there had firsthand knowledge about the 4WD trails in the area.  She suggested a few and gave us some good maps. 

The first trail we chose was the Schnebly Hill Road Trail.  It was listed as one of the more scenic trails.  Pink Jeep Tours are well known in Sedona.  We saw several Pink Jeeps.  This was a rough and rocky road and we went bumping along for 5 miles to the vista. 

This is a 4WD day gone very bad.  We couldn’t even figure out how the car got down there…and it was going to be very hard and probably expensive to get it out!

The view from Schnebly Trail.

This trail dumped us onto Highway 17.  It was 37 miles back to town. 

Bell Rock.

Our second trail of the day was the Broken Arrow Trail.  This trail is rated a double diamond trail…extremely difficult – for experts. 

The features of the trail were slickrock, rock ledges, and “Devil’s Staircase.” This was a great ride.  It was exciting and not too scary and just plain fun! 

The views at “Chicken Point” were fabulous.  We were up on top with the pink parade. 

Lunch spot.

Can you see the two young boys on mountain bikes…yikes!!!

The really fun part was after lunch, driving down steep slickrock hills and then down the steps. 

We wanted to go out for dinner while we were here. I saw a place called Vino Di Sedona. It advertised tapas, craft beer, and fine wine. It sounded perfect…and it was!

Delicious malbec!

Enjoy the Ryde!