
Camping in Sedona: where you can (and can't) camp in red rock country
The first thing to know about camping in Sedona is that the rules changed, and most of the internet hasn't noticed. The old move was to drive a forest road into the red rocks and camp anywhere. That era is over: the Forest Service now restricts camping across the land west of Sedona to designated areas only, under an order running through August 2026, after years of the free-for-all loving the place half to death. The good news is that every kind of Sedona camping still exists. Free desert site








