SLIDE ROCK IS NOW A STATE PARK IN SEDONA. WHEN WE WENT TO ARIZONA STATE FOR GRADUATE WORK IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND LOVED THE BEAUTY OF THE STATE. ONE OF OUR FAVORITE PLACES WAS SEDONA WHICH WAS A SMALL TOWN IN THE 1970S. THEY HAVE A UNIQUE STATE PARK WHICH WAS JUST A GOLDEN SANDSTONE SLIDE ROCK BENEATH CRYSTAL CLEAR CREEK WATER. WE NEVER KNEW IT AS A PARK. WE JUST STOPPED HERE WITH OUR SWIMMING SUITS ON AND SLID DOWN THE COOL WATER THAT RAN OVER THE SLICK SANDSTONE. AT THIS TIME THEY CHARGE A FEE BUT WE NEVER SAW IT AS A PARK. THERE IS AN OLD 1907 HOMESTEAD NEARBY WITH TRAILS LEADING YOU AROUND THIS BEAUTIFUL ROCK CANYON. SEDONA HAS BEEN KNOWN AS A SPIRITUAL PLACE FOR MILLENIA.
WE BACKPACKED IN OAK CREEK CANYON TO THE NORTH OF SEDONA AND WALKED WITH WATER SANDALS ON. OUR JOURNEY WENT ONLY A FEW MILES UP WHICH PASSED ALL THE TOURISTS GETTING COOLED OFF IN THIS CREEK. THERE WAS A ROCK WE HAD TO CLIMB OVER TO GET TO THE HIGHER PART OF THE CREEK WHERE THE UPPER CANYON WAS. THEN VERY FEW PEOPLE GET PASSED THIS POINT. IT IS LIKE A WILDERNESS THERE AND WE CAMPED OVERNIGHT THERE. LATER ON WE LEARNED THEIR WAS A CAVE NEARBY WHERE THEY FOUND SOME PREHISTORIC BASKETS.
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