Ultimate Sedona adventure

What if an entire day in Sedona could be built entirely around you? Instead of choosing a single trail and watching the clock, imagine spending the day exploring deep into one of Sedona’s remarkable wilderness areas, following crystal-clear waters through Red Rock Country, climbing toward an inspiring summit, or traveling across the landscape on a custom built private adventure. With more than 200 unique adventures possible within this full-day format, our guides can create an experience that is as individual as the people joining it. 

Your fitness, interests, abilities, preferred pace, and reasons for visiting Sedona all become part of the planning process, giving you the freedom to experience Red Rock Country exactly the way you want. This is the ultimate expression of customized Sedona hiking.

Go Deeper Into the Backcountry

A full day drastically changes what is possible. With considerably more time than our Two Hour, Three Hour, and Half Day customized experiences, your guide can take you farther from the crowds and deeper into Sedona’s backcountry. You can explore the expansive wilderness surrounding the red rocks, seek out secluded viewpoints, discover lesser-traveled trails, and spend meaningful time immersed in landscapes that many visitors never experience.

The goal isn’t simply to simply cover more miles. It’s to create the opportunity for a deeper connection with Sedona. For some groups, that may mean spending hours exploring a remote wilderness area. For others, it could mean following a scenic route alongside the cool waters of Red Rock Country or connecting several unique hiking experiences together throughout the day.

Your Day, Your Adventure

The possibilities for this adventure are nearly endless. Your private experience can be fashioned into an extended journey across Sedona, an expansive scenic loop, a demanding summit push, or a combination of multiple hiking locations. You might dedicate the day to reaching one of Sedona’s highest and most inspiring summits. You could explore several different areas to experience a wider variety of red rock formations. Or perhaps your ideal day is less about physical accomplishment and more about slowing down, finding solitude, and allowing the landscape to become the centerpiece of your experience.

Your guide can adjust the difficulty, mileage, elevation, and pace to meet your group’s abilities and goals. Want to push yourself? We can build a demanding adventure. Prefer something more relaxed? We can create a scenic experience focused on exploration, photography, and immersion.

Experience More of Red Rock Country

The additional time also creates opportunities to experience a much broader range of Sedona’s landscapes. Towering sandstone formations, secluded canyons, expansive mesas, dramatic summits, flowing waterways, wilderness corridors, and panoramic overlooks can all become part of your day. Rather than seeing one small section of Red Rock Country, you have the freedom to connect different environments and perspectives into one continuous experience.

For photographers, that means more opportunities to find distinctive compositions and changing light. For wildlife enthusiasts, spending more time in the backcountry can increase the possibility of encountering the animals that inhabit Sedona’s diverse ecosystems. And for anyone seeking solitude, a full day provides considerably more opportunity to move beyond the busiest areas and discover the quieter side of the landscape.

A Day That Can Be as Challenging — or Relaxed — as You Want

There is no predetermined level of exertion. Your guide can shape the adventure around your group’s physical abilities and desired challenge. A summit-focused outing can become a serious physical undertaking, while a wilderness exploration can emphasize discovery and scenery rather than speed or elevation. You can hike hard, slow down, stop for photography, explore interesting geological features, learn about the area's natural and cultural history, or simply sit quietly and take in the surrounding landscape. The day belongs to you and your private group.

Chase the Experiences That Bring You to Sedona

Every visitor arrives with a different reason for being here. Maybe you came for the red rocks. Maybe it’s the wildlife, geology, photography, adventure, solitude, vortex traditions, or the desire to escape everyday life for a while. Whatever brought you here, your guide can build the experience around it. And because you have an entire day, there is room to pursue more than one interest. 

A challenging morning summit could transition into a peaceful afternoon exploration. Several shorter hikes could become one comprehensive day of discovery. A remote wilderness adventure could be combined with an iconic Sedona landmark. You don’t have to choose just one.

The Pinnacle of Customized Sedona Hiking

The progression is simple: the Two Hour: Sedona Explorer makes the most of a short window. The Three Hour: Guided Expedition gives you greater reach and variety. The Half Day: Red Rock Excursion opens the door to multiple locations, wilderness, and extended solitude. While the Full Day: Ultimate Sedona Adventure takes that concept as far as it can go.

More time. More terrain. More possibilities. More than 200 ways to create an experience around your group.

If you want to see as much of Red Rock Country as possible, explore remote wilderness, pursue an unforgettable summit, travel between multiple locations, or simply spend an entire day immersed in Sedona’s naturally meditative landscape, this is the experience designed to make it happen. Come for the adventure you imagined.

Let your guide help create the one you never knew was possible. And when the day finally comes to an end, you won’t simply have spent a day hiking in Sedona — you’ll have spent an entire day experiencing it on your terms.

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
• Two Organic Fruit/Veggies
• Fresh Made Healthy Wrap
• 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: Full Day/6 Hours of Hiking & 1 Hour of Logistics
• Distance: 6 - 20+ 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 / Wilderness Hike
• Trails Used: Customized
• Best Season: All Year
• Sites Visited: 1 - 4 Hikes
• Start Times: 5AM, 5:30AM, 6AM, 6:30AM, 7AM, 7:30AM, 8AM
• Upcoming Availabilities: Ultimate Sedona Adventure Calendar
• Cost: $325 + Tax/Hiker (Private Group) & $595 + 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