.5 Mile Loop Hike

Easy Hike To Beautiful Sinagua / Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan Ruins Against The Red Rocks

15 miles from downtown Sedona is the very easily accessible Honanki Heritage Site which showcases some cliffside Anasazi Sinagua Sites. The road to the site doesn’t require 4WD but high clearance is a smart idea. The hike is short and sweet at half a mile and it takes you right up to the ruins’ walls and pictographs. The site’s sister, Palatki requires a reservation from Reservation.gov but this one does not. Although Honanki is managed by the US Forest Service under the Red Rock Pass Program. That means you must buy one of those passes in town and display it in your windshield when you are hiking anywhere in the Sedona area.

The site was occupied by the Sinagua people from ~AD1150 to 1350. Honanki means Bear or Badger House in the Hopi Language, although the Hopi don’t call it that. After the Sinagua migrated out of the site, the later Apaches also occupied it. If you’re interested in the history of this area, listen to my History Podcast Series over the Ancient Ones of the American Southwest.