12 Facts About Sedona

1.

Sedona is the home to the nationally recognized McDonald's with turquoise arches, instead of the traditional Golden Arches.

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2.

Sedona was named after Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly, the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city's first postmaster.

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3.

Sedona began to develop as a tourist destination, vacation-home and retirement center in the 1950s.

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4.

Sedona played host to more than sixty Hollywood productions from the first years of movies into the 1970s.

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5.

Sedona is located in the interior chaparral, semi-desert grassland, Great Basin conifer woodland biomes of northern Arizona.

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6.

Red rocks of Sedona are formed by a unique layer of rock known as the Schnebly Hill Formation.

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7.

The unincorporated Village of Oak Creek, 7 miles to the south and well outside the Sedona city limits, is a significant part of the Sedona community.

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8.

In 2013, Sedona became one of the Arizona municipalities to approve of civil unions for same-sex partners.

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9.

Sedona is served by the Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District.

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10.

West Sedona School, serving grades K–6, is located at 570 Posse Ground Road.

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11.

University of Sedona is an unaccredited institution providing ministerial training and education in metaphysics.

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12.

Sedona Airport is a non-towered general aviation airport located within the city limits.

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