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RECTOR CONNECTOR The Rector Connector opened in January 2018. Silverleaf nightshade grows in sunny spots on the trail. Scenic spot on Rector Connector. A new trail has debuted in a hub of Red Rock Country old standards.   Lodged in the middle of the Big Park Trails system just north of the Village of Oak Creek, the Rector Connector fills a void in the loop-centric routes that orbit iconic Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte.   Rector Connector spins off Courthouse Butte Loop. For years, trail users who were unhappy that the Coconino National Forest trails went around, but not between the massive rock formations along State Route 179 had been blazing their own routes creating unsustainable, dangerous paths that damaged the sensitive environment.   View of Bell Rock from Rector Connector. In January 2018, Friends of the Forest�a non-profit Sedona organization that promotes stewardship of area public lands through financial and volunteer labor support --under the tutelage of the ...

LLAMA TRAIL Sedona Madonna and Two Nuns as seen from Llama Trail Some of Arizona's most beautiful hiking trails reside miles beyond the vestiges of civilization along impossibly convoluted, tire-eating backroads. For those with a vehicle robust enough for the journey, the payoff is a kind of solitude unique to Arizona's remote regions. If you're driving a compact sedan, your destination options are more limited, but there are places where its possible to park at a groomed trailhead off a paved byway and still unplug from the masses. Once such destination departs from the heavily used Little Horse trailhead in Sedona. Cathedral Rock on horizon A quick assessment of the crowded parking lot might lead you to doubt the claim that peace and quite lie beyond the throngs of camera totting tourists and scampering kids. However, in less than a mile, the Llama Trail veers away from the mobs of hikers who mostly stick to the main routes leading to Chicken Point and Bell Rock. Origin...