Slide Rock, Oak Creek 3-1-2009

Slide Rock is a very scenic, very full of tourists run up Oak Creek Canyon from Sedona that usually does not have enough water. We paddled it when there was about 200 cfs on the Sedona gauge. I would recommend a minimum of 400.

Put in drop

The first part of the fun is granite boulder gardens. Actually, the geology of this creek is very unusual. The bedrock is all sandstone, but at the beginning and end of the run, granite boulder are piled on top. The only clean slides are in the middle of the run, in the state park.

Boulder garden

Sliding


More sliding

Bottom of the slides


And more boulder gardens

Neat run, beautiful place, needs more water.