Sedona Explorer

Short on time but unwilling to settle for an ordinary Sedona hike? This private, fully customized two-hour adventure is designed to make every minute in Red Rock Country count. Instead of choosing from a single predetermined route, your guide can create a personalized experience around what brought you to Sedona in the first place.

With the ability to create up to 50 unique adventures within this two-hour format, the possibilities extend far beyond simply choosing a trail. You might climb to a scenic red rock summit, wander a peaceful loop, explore a renowned vortex site, walk beside Oak Creek, or experience a breathtaking sunrise or sunset. Your guide will help match the experience to your interests, abilities, fitness level, preferred pace, and the type of interpretation you want along the way.

Your Time. Your Interests. Your Adventure.

Not every traveler comes to Sedona for the same reason — and your hike shouldn’t feel like it was designed for everyone else. Some guests want panoramic views and a physical challenge. Others are looking for an easy nature walk, a quiet place for photography, a romantic experience, or an opportunity to learn about Sedona’s geology, wildlife, and cultural history. That’s where this experience becomes something more than a standard guided hike.

Your guide can shape the adventure around your group, selecting a route and experience that fits the way you want to spend your limited time. The result is a private outing that feels intentionally created for you rather than pulled from a preset itinerary.

Choose Your Way to Experience Sedona

The adventure can take many forms. Depending on your interests and abilities, your two hours might become a scenic loop through the red rocks, a summit hike toward an elevated overlook, an exploration of one of Sedona’s famous vortex areas, or a carefully selected short hike that showcases a particular aspect of the landscape. The experience can also be timed around sunrise or sunset, creating opportunities to see the sandstone formations under some of the most beautiful light of the day.

With more than 165 trails throughout the Sedona area, the challenge isn’t finding somewhere to hike — it’s knowing which experience will make the most sense for you. That’s where local knowledge matters.

A Private Experience Built Around You

Because the adventure is private, your guide isn’t managing a group of strangers with different abilities, expectations, and interests. Your time belongs to your group.

Your guide can adjust the pace, difficulty, route, stops, and interpretation throughout the experience. 

Want to spend more time taking photographs? Interested in learning about the geology? Looking for a workout? Prefer a relaxed nature experience? Want to see a vortex without committing to a long hike?

Your guide can build the experience accordingly. And because the adventure includes transportation from your Sedona-area accommodation to the trailhead and back, the planning becomes remarkably simple. You can focus on enjoying your time in Sedona while your guide handles the logistics.

Make Two Hours Feel Like More

A short visit doesn’t have to mean a limited experience. The beauty of a customized two-hour adventure is that the focus stays on what matters most to you. Rather than spending valuable vacation time navigating unfamiliar trails, searching for parking, or trying to determine which hike best matches your group, you can have a local expert create an experience around your priorities. For families, couples, solo travelers, photographers, active adventurers, and first-time visitors, that flexibility can completely change the way you experience Sedona.

An Adventure That Fits Your Sedona Story

Perhaps you have only a few hours between other activities. Maybe you’re visiting Sedona for the first time and want a personalized introduction to Red Rock Country. Or perhaps you’ve returned to the area and want something different from the familiar trails.

Whatever brought you here, your guide can help turn those two hours into an experience that fits. If you’re searching for a customized Sedona hiking tour, private guided hike, short Sedona adventure, scenic summit hike, vortex experience, or personalized red rock excursion, this is your opportunity to explore on your terms.

You choose what interests you. Your guide builds the adventure. And in just two hours, you can discover a side of Sedona that feels like it was created specifically for you.

Outing Includes

• Private Hiking Guide
• Red Rock Pass
• Sedona Resort/Airbnb/VRBO Transportation (Sedona, Village of Oak Creek, Oak Creek Canyon)
• Healthy Packaged Trail Snacks
• Bottled Water
• Ultima Electrolytes
• Osprey Daylite Hiking Backpack
• Trekking Poles (By Request)
• 500 Lumen Black Diamond Headlamp
• Gloves, Beanies, Neck Gaiters (During Winter Months)
• UPF 50 Sun Hoodies
• Disposable Rain Ponchos
• Micro Spikes for Snow (If Needed)
• Osprey Poco Plus Kids Carrying Pack (By Request)
• Kids Car Seats & Booster Seats (By Request)
• Full List of Supplies Included

Logistics

• Duration: 2 Hours of Hiking & 1 Hour of Logistics 
• Distance: 1 - 3 Miles
• Elevation Change: Customized
• Capacity: 1 - 14 Hikers
• Types of Hikes Available (Custom Hike): Summit Hike / Scenic Loop Hike / Vortex Site / Sunrise or Sunset Start 
• Difficulty: Easy / Moderate / Hard
• Best Season: All Year
• Trails Used: Customized
• Sites Visited: 1 Hike
• Capacity: 2 - 14 Hikers
• Start Times: 5AM, 5:30AM, 6AM, 6:30AM, 7AM, 7:30AM, 8AM, 2:30PM
• Upcoming Availabilities: Sedona Explorer Calendar
• Cost: $150 + Tax/Hiker (Private Group) & $295 + Tax (Private Solo Hiker)

*PRIVATE ONLY TOURS: TWO PERSON MINIMUM FOR PRIVATE GROUPS OR PLEASE REFER TO SOLO HIKER PRICING

**WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND CONSIDERING PEEK PROTECT COVERAGE AND REVIEWING OUR CANCELLATION POLICY BEFORE BOOKING YOUR RESERVATION

***WE REQUIRE ALL HIKERS/ATTENDEES TO HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE TO ATTEND ANY OF OUR OUTINGS OFFERED