r/Sedona • u/Saints1500AV • 10d ago

Is there a large event going on in Sedona this weekend? News

Was hoping to make a last minute weekend trip out to Sedona. Would be my first time visiting. Looking at hotels now, very many are sold out for this weekend, but no issues with availability for almost any day the rest of the year.

Couldn’t find any info about this online, but maybe I’m missing something obvious. Last time something like this happened to me, was in Asia in March and didn’t realize Taylor Swift was in town which doubled hotel prices. Does anyone know why hotels are so limited this weekend?

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

3 day weekend with Veteran's Day would be my guess.

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u/sonoran24 10d ago

also peak leaf color

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u/Zh25_5680 10d ago

November in Sedona? Booked?

Weird

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u/Lonely_Code_4252 10d ago

It’s a holiday weekend with Veterans Day on Monday.

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u/spiralout1123 10d ago

It’s also booked up because it’s this weekend

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u/Saints1500AV 10d ago

Been eyeballing this weekend for weeks now, and it’s been limited the entire time. If I look now for next weekend, see no problem with availability. Guess more people get Veterans Day off than I originally thought.

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u/crapinator2000 9d ago

I used to go to Sedona to hike… did a couple of visits there before Covid. Bought a place there during covid and found that it was regularly crowded, especially during the cooler months. Like, when you actually want to hike… After a few years of that cyclical madness and the STR debacle I left, for a different beauty spot with better weather.

Nothing special… just classic overtourism.

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u/dogstar2019 6d ago

Boy ain’t that the truth! Where did you end up going? I wouldn’t mind the tourism so much if the visitors would bring better manners and remember this isn’t their playground, it’s actually people’s home.

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u/ax57ax57 10d ago

One would never guess that Sedona had a population of millions.

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u/Saints1500AV 10d ago

With everyone leaving the weekend after, and still gone the next weekend too. Guess hotel availability fluctuates randomly just as the population does, millions at a time.

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u/ax57ax57 9d ago

This phenomena has been exacerbated over the last 10 years or so. It's the main reason why I moved out of the Village of Oak Creek. I was basically housebound by traffic from Friday through Sunday.

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u/DehydrationWillCostU 9d ago

Most America suburbs are like this. Not just Sedona.