![]() This is to keep campers within the eight designated areas and from creating dispersed campsites along the forest roads that negatively impact the land and can lead to trespassing on private land.īy creating these designated areas and prohibiting dispersed camping elsewhere in west Sedona, the Red Rock Ranger District hopes to reduce conflicts among visitors and among private property owners, who express growing concerns about illegal and abandoned campfires, human waste, trash left behind, noise levels, impacts to the land, violations of the 14-day camping limit, and further creep of campsite creation and user-created roads. The efforts over several years to bring this to fruition has been in partnership with the National Forest Foundation. “We’re very pleased that all this hard work by everyone involved is coming to fruition and believe this effort to provide more managed recreation opportunities in an area of very high demand will balance access and resource protection.”Īlong with the designated camping system, a Forest Order has been put in place that prohibits dispersed camping and campfires in the 32,130-acre area that makes up most of the national forest in west Sedona. “We have been gathering public comments, working with local residents, and many stakeholders and partners for years in order to implement this camping and day-use system,” said Red Rock District Ranger Amy Tinderholt. ![]() Each site operates on a first-come, first-served basis. The designated areas are accessed via state Route 89A, with five of those areas located along the popular access Forest Road 525, while two others are located along FR 89B, and the final area on FR 9570A.
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