Red Rock State Park

Red Rock State Park is a 286-acre Arizona day-use park southwest of Sedona built around a red sandstone canyon and a 1.4-mile stretch of Oak Creek. Created to protect riparian habitat and support environmental education, it contains streamside forests, upland vegetation, rare native fish, frogs, the threatened Sonora mud turtle, and notable bird and mammal species. The land was once Smoke Trail Ranch and later belonged to Jack and Helen Frye before failed resort plans and a transfer to Eckankar. After a complex land exchange championed by Governor Bruce Babbitt, the park was established and opened to the public in 1991.

Arizona · United States