Sedona Is a Surprising Desert Destination


Typically, I’m not much for stars, but it was 10 p.m. on a Sunday in Sedona, and the town was asleep. From our hotel room, all we could see was the shadow of a rocky bluff rising up a few hundred yards away.

The town is one of only eight cities in the world designated a Dark Sky Community for its lack of light pollution, and twinkling stars are packed so densely here that I understood, for the first time, how the ancient Greeks imagined constellations among them. It occurred to me that everything shuts down after dark here because no nightlife could possibly compare to two people, sharing a blanket and a bottle of wine and looking at the stars. Read the full travel article here.

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