US-89A threads its way south from Flagstaff down the spectacular
Oak Creek Canyon
to emerge after 28 miles at
Sedona
, on the threshold of the extraordinary
Red Rock Country
. Up from the valley rise giant mesas and buttes of stark red sandstone, where Zane Grey set a number of his Wild West adventures. The boom-and-bust mining town of
Jerome
looks down from a mountainside to the south, while back beside I-17 toward Phoenix are further haunting Sinagua ruins.
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