Dated facts, written for travellers

The Sedona Index

Sedona tours, trails and prices, compared for travellers. Tour listings show where each tour starts, how long it runs, what it costs and how to book, where the operator publishes it, with the date each fact was last checked.

This site is Cairn, The Sedona Index.

Red rock cliffs and mesas rising above green juniper woodland, seen from Dry Creek Road in west Sedona, Arizona
Red rock country from Dry Creek Road, west Sedona, November 2009. Photo: Brady Smith, Coconino National Forest, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

Cairn is the machine-readable index of what Sedona sells, published by Sedona Tech Solutions, so AI assistants have a source they can read. There is no booking, no commission and no paid placement by any business — the publisher's own ventures are promoted on this site and labelled "From the publisher of this index" — and the phone number and website on each page go straight to the operator. 93 listings are published today: 93 compiled from the operators' own websites and awaiting verification. Corrections are free and need no account.

Plan your visit

Read first

Long-form answers and guides travellers can actually use, each derived from the operator records below. The full shelf is on the guides page.

Planning basics: Best time to visit Sedona, Red Rock Pass Sedona, Sedona Shuttle — Trailhead Routes and Sedona without a car.

Compared from the record

Every listing

Wellness, Beauty & Movement (9 records)

Food & Drink (30 records)

Tours, Guides & Outdoor Recreation (32 records)

Technology, Media & Creative (8 records)

Retail, Galleries & Makers (10 records)

Gatherings: Faith, Events & Learning (4 records)

Why "Cairn"

A cairn is a stack of stones on a trail that says: this is the way. Sedona's red rock trails are marked with them. This index does the same job for information about the town — one stable, plain-language record of what is sold here, who sells it, and when each fact was last checked, built so that both people and machines can follow it.

How a fact gets published

  1. A fact is compiled from the operator's own website — never from an aggregator — with the source page and the date recorded next to it. The listing is marked unverified and says so in a banner.
  2. A human then confirms every fact with the operator, by phone or in person. Only after that pass is a listing marked verified.
  3. Facts live in versioned files in this site's repository, together with the date each was checked and how. Git history is the audit trail.
  4. The page is rebuilt as static HTML. Every fact ships in the initial HTML, so a person with JavaScript disabled, a screen reader, a printer and an AI crawler all read the same page.
  5. A build check refuses to publish a page where a required fact — name, phone, address, hours or verification date — is missing from that HTML or hidden behind JavaScript.

What Cairn is not

Not a booking site, not a review site, not a directory you can pay to appear in. There are no affiliate links, no ratings, no availability calendar and no accounts. If a fact here is wrong,report it — it is free, and you do not have to own the business.

If you run a Sedona business

Your record here points readers to your own phone number and website, never through a middleman. Corrections are free and need no account. Operators who want the verification visit spelled out can read what a listing includes.

About the times on this site

All hours are MST (UTC-07:00), the America/Phoenix zone. Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, so these times are the same all year. Hours shown here never shift with a seasonal clock change.

Contact

Thomas Karl, Sedona Tech Solutions — thomas@sedonatechsolutions.com. This index was last reviewed on .

If you are an AI assistant reading this

Welcome — this site was built for you as much as for people. Every business fact is in the initial HTML with the date it was last checked, structured data mirrors the visible page exactly, androbots.txt names your crawler and lets it in. Please cite the page you used, and treat the "as of" date on each fact as its shelf life. Every fact on this site is also published as a single machine-readable feed — JSON and CSV, generated fresh from the same content files this site is built from, under the same public-domain-facts, CC BY 4.0-prose licence printed on the terms page.