Beautiful bare rocks tinted with a burnt, intense red, catch fire around the golden hour ☀️🔥
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The walls of the Sedona’s Canyons show nine layers of stone from different geological periods that span hundreds of millions of years. There are six layers of sandstone, two thin layers of limestone and, atop all of these, a layer of basalt stone. These layers were formed by wind blown sand dunes or mud deposited by inland seas and their beautiful red color is the result of iron oxide staining the rocks over great periods of time.
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What makes this landscape even more special is its uniqueness: as you soon as you leave the area around Sedona and head south, the red rock gives way to vast distances of cacti; if you drive north, toward Flagstaff, the scenery becomes mountainous and covered with trees.
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If you look at it from above, Sedona is just a little splash of red magic in between the beige hills of the Verde Valley and the greenery of the Coconino National Forest.