Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend Day Trip from Sedona: Slot Canyons, Sandstone, and Southwest Views

Dawn warms the red walls of Sedona as the day’s first shadows slide off the buttes and a small group loads into a comfortable van. Northbound, the road climbs through ponderosa pines, then exhales onto high desert where the Painted Desert spreads like powdered color. The Little Colorado carves a quiet chasm, the wind herds sand across the highway, and the sky runs wide. By late morning, Lake Powell’s blue shows its hand near Page, and the real draw—the sculpted corridors of Upper Antelope Canyon—waits on Navajo land.