what to see near sedona arizona?
Sedona Airport Red Rock State Park Seven Canyons Honanki Cathedral Rock Chapel of the Holy Cross Sycamore Canyon Oak Creek Canyon Slide Rock State Park Bell Rock
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 The Arizona Trail is designed to emulate the wildlife and plant life of the state of Arizona . It features several plants native to the Sonoran Desert including the saguaro cactus , and animals such as the coyote , collared peccary ( more commonly known as the javelina ) , cougar , bobcat , raven , turkey vulture , coati , thick billed parrot , Sonoran pronghorn , and the Mexican gray wolf . 

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 Golden eagles , red @-@ tailed hawks , peregrine falcons , and white @-@ throated swifts can be seen in the area.Desert bighorn sheep were reintroduced in the park in 1973 . California condors were reintroduced in the Arizona Strip and in 2014 the first successful breeding of condors in the park was confirmed . Nineteen species of bat also live in the area . 

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 In 1941 , Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes hired Adams for six months to create photographs of lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior . Wright accompanied Adams and his young son Michael Adams on a long road trip around the west . While traveling through the Chama River valley near nightfall on November 1 , 1941 , they encountered a " fantastic scene " , a church and cemetery near Hernandez , New Mexico , and pulled to the side of the road . Adams recalled that he yelled at his son Michael and at Wright to " Get this ! Get that , for God 's sake ! We don 't have much time ! " Desperate to capture the image in the fading light , they scrambled to set up the tripod and camera , knowing that only moments remained before the light was gone . The result was Moonrise , Hernandez , New Mexico , a photograph that became so popular and collectible that Adams personally made over 1 @,@ 300 photographic prints of it during his long career . On October 17 , 2006 , Sotheby 's auctioned a print of this photograph for $ 609 @,@ 600 . Art historian H. W. Janson called this photo " a perfect marriage of straight and pure photography " . 

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 Occasional trappers and prospectors visited , with one prospector , John Moss , making his observations known in 1873 . The following year , Moss led eminent photographer William Henry Jackson through Mancos Canyon , at the base of Mesa Verde . There , Jackson both photographed and publicized a typical stone cliff dwelling . Geologist William H. Holmes retraced Jackson 's route in 1875 . Reports by both Jackson and Holmes were included in the 1876 report of the Hayden Survey , one of the four federally financed efforts to explore the American West . These and other publications led to proposals to systematically study Southwestern archeological sites . 

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 From the 16th through the 18th centuries , explorers looking for routes between Spanish colonies along the Rio Grande to the southeast and other Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast to the west passed near or through the area , which they called El Desierto Pintado , the Painted Desert . However , the park 's oldest Spanish inscriptions , left by descendants of the region 's early Spanish colonists , date only to the late 19th century . 
