Things to do in Central Arizona, Central Arizona: The Best Hiking & Camping Tours

April 21, 2022 Emerita Lamoureux

Home to the Phoenix metropolitan area and its more than 3.4 million residents, Central Arizona offers an amazing array of museums, cultural venues and outdoor adventures. The Valley of the Sun boasts hopping nightlife and a thrilling selection of restaurants, resorts and spas. Discover Old West and Native American history. Hike among the cactus in the Sonoran desert. Try your hand at ranching in Glendale. Drive the Superstition Mountains. Visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale.
Restaurants in Central Arizona

1. Discovery Treks

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Discovery Treks

Discovery Treks is a premier Arizona, Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park Backpacking Guide Service and Outfitter offering multi-day backpacking tours through the Grand Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park and Sedona, AZ. Discovery Treks tours are all-inclusive, meaning we will provide you with all the necessary backpacking equipment that you need, a professional and knowledgable, wilderness first responder, certified backpacking guide. Fresh food options on your hike including all food from lunch day 1 of your hike to lunch on the final day of your hike with any meal preparation handled by your guide as well as any permit fees associated with your hike. Grand Canyon tours do also include transportation from our Scottsdale, AZ hotel partner. For those that aren't quite up for a whole backpacking tour, Discovery Treks also offers single day hiking tours in the Grand Canyon as well as the iconic Red Rocks in Sedona, AZ!

2. Southwest Outside Adventures

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5.0 based on 49 reviews

Southwest Outside Adventures

Custom guided hiking and tours in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Something for all levels. Come explore Sedona with a local guide while hiking among the red rocks. You will be picked up in a luxurious SUV and the trip will be catered to your liking. From driving tours to all day hiking adventures, come explore Red Rock Country with us! Ask about Grand Canyon excursions and multi-day trips throughout Utah and the Southwest, also!

3. CenterFocus Experiences

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CenterFocus Experiences

CenterFocus Adventures offers primarily CANYONEERING tours as well as Grand Canyon Backpacking and Grand Canyon Hiking tours departing from Sedona and Northern, Arizona destinations. Our rock climbing trips depart out of Sedona and take place on the high quality rock of the Mogollon Rim. We also offer single day canyoneering trips near beautiful Roosevelt Lake. Multi-day pristine wilderness based canyoneering tours are also available at this Roosevelt Lake site that can include tent or cabin based accomodations at our private ranch located in that area. CenterFocus also provides team building in both the Phoenix and Sedona areas upon request. We are USFS and NPS permitted at all of our locations, include all equipment and training.

4. Sedona Red Rock Tours

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5.0 based on 223 reviews

Sedona Red Rock Tours

You Definitely Want to Be Out on the Rocks… Sedona Red Rock Tours is one of the few sedona tour companies licensed with the US Forest Service to take you out on the rocks to the vortex sites. It truly felt as if we had an initiation from the rocks that will take us to a whole new level in our healing practice.” –Maria, CA red rock tours sedona Vortex energy can create profound changes within you, unique to each individual. You Want to Have Your Own Unique Experience… You are a unique spiritual being with a distinct spiritual path–and to have the most profound experience, your choice of Sedona vortex outings needs to reflect that. Sedona Red Rock Tours doesn’t have a memorized cookie-cutter tour. Our guides create your experience around you and your spiritual willingness, your emotional needs and your physical ability. Our guides meet with you to discern which vortex energy field will be best for you to start with…and from there you follow Spirit. And our experiences are private. That means you are never paired with people you don’t know. Sedona vortex experiences are a powerful and transformative way to experience Sedona’s vortex energy, world-renowned for its ability to transform, awaken and heal those who enter it. Sedona tours come in two varieties: those that point out interesting landmarks in Sedona–and those that rock your world by helping you experience the potent energy of Sedona for yourself.

5. Arizona Hiking Adventures - Day Tours

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5.0 based on 29 reviews

Arizona Hiking Adventures - Day Tours

AHA strives to be Arizona's leading hiking adventure company, by means of service excellence, unique tours, and personal attention to every one of our clients. Arizona Hiking Adventures is dedicated to preserving and protecting our natural resources through education by example on tours.

6. Sedona Trail Zen

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Sedona Trail Zen

Guided Hiking Tours, Mountain Bike Rentals, Trail Yoga Tours, and Smoothie Cafe. Our experienced guides take you to our favorite secret spots away from the crowds and you can enjoy a cold beverage or smoothie when you return to our trail shop!

7. REI Co-op Adventure Center Arizona

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REI Co-op Adventure Center Arizona

The REI Adventure Center in Scottsdale offers adventures for all, including guided hiking, road and mountain biking, kayaking, rafting, and SUP tours. Experience the desert with a guide or explore on your own with a bike from the Adventure Center's rental fleet. At the REI Co-op, we stand behind one simple belief, that a life outdoors is a life well-lived. Experience life outdoors with the REI Co-op on a guided day tour, hands-on class, or a curated rental experience delivered to you from a REI Co-op Adventure Center. Come with us and experience the great outdoors the Co-op way.

8. One Tribe Tours

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One Tribe Tours

Explore mystical side of Sedona on our private vortex tour or retreat. Let us show you how to tap into Sedona's powerful vortex energy to heal yourself or simply recharge your batteries with positive vibes. Relax in a guided meditation or take a Kundalini Yoga class out on the spectacular red rocks. Our unique and personalized vortex tours in Sedona, spiritual retreats, and energy healing sessions are designed to bring you to a place of inner peace, harmony and joy. You are our tribe and we want to create an experience of Sedona for you that will nourish and elevate your spirit. If this is what you are looking for - call us or book directly on our website. Every tour comes with delicious and healthy homemade snacks and tea. Free pick-ups in Sedona.

9. Don Donnelly's D-Spur Ranch and Stables

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Don Donnelly's D-Spur Ranch and Stables

Located in the foothills of the legendary Superstition Mountain on 5,8000 acres of pristine sonoran desert in Gold Canyon, Arizona. Providing horseback trail rides, hay wagon rides, cookouts, campsites & boarding. On your adventures through the sonoran desert you may see the beautiful and exciting local wildlife such as: coyotes, javelina, mule dear and longhorn cattle (as this is a working longhorn cattle ranch).

10. Trail Lovers Excursions

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Trail Lovers Excursions

Trail Lovers Excursions, LLC offers the most unique outdoor adventures in Sedona. Our highly customized and private hiking tours combine: multiple trails, one-way hikes, scenic loops, unique shuttle drops, and explore the most pristine wilderness areas in Red Rock Country. Our experienced local guides, will teach you about: medicinal & edible plants, unique desert creatures, geology, Native American history, vortices, and wilderness survival. Our outings will take you away from crowds, and are respectfully led through Sedona's most seldom hiked and sacred areas. Not only do we offer our customized Sedona hiking tours for all experience levels, but we also have the most passionate and knowledgeable adventure guides in Arizona to lead the way. Each of our private Sedona hiking tours is 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. The only question is, are you ready for the adventure vacation of a lifetime?!! **Official permitted outfitter guide of the USFS, Red Rock Ranger District of Coconino County.

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