Sedona Attraction Tickets: Every Fee, Pass and Permit in One Table

Two passes look interchangeable and are not. The Red Rock Pass is a $5-$20 Forest Service parking permit for about 23 standard trailheads around Sedona; the America the Beautiful (Interagency) pass is an $80-a-year federal pass that substitutes for it at those same standard sites, plus it opens the gate at Grand Canyon and at Montezuma Castle/Tuzigoot, agencies the Red Rock Pass has no relationship with at all.

Neither pass works at five Forest Service sites the agency itself calls concessionaire-managed (West Fork/Call of the Canyon, Crescent Moon, Grasshopper Point, Beaver Creek, Lower Lake Mary), which instead take their own gate fee or a separate Coconino Hospitality Annual Pass. And neither pass works at Slide Rock or Red Rock State Park, both run by Arizona State Parks, a state agency with no relationship to the federal fee programs at all. A hiker who buys a Red Rock Pass expecting it to also cover a Slide Rock afternoon will be turned away at that gate and asked to pay again.

Slide Rock and Red Rock State Park both belong to Arizona State Parks, which prices and collects its own fee independently of every federal program on this page. Slide Rock's per-vehicle fee steps down from $30 to $20 on August 22, 2026, and admits by vehicle only; walk-ins and bicycles are turned away at its gate. Red Rock State Park charges by person instead: $10 for anyone 14 and older, $5 for ages 7-13, free under 7, and that entry fee already includes the park's daily guided nature hikes.

The one pass that legitimately covers both is Arizona State Parks' own $200 Annual Day-Use Pass, described on its reservations page as weekend and holiday access for up to four people; it is not the same product as the federal America the Beautiful pass and the two are never interchangeable. Full detail, hours by season and the capacity-closure risk at Slide Rock live on the Slide Rock fee page.

Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot are both National Park Service sites in the Verde Valley, and they share one fee: $10 per adult (16 and up) buys a 7-day pass valid at both monuments, children 15 and under enter free, and a $35 annual local pass covers the cardholder plus three guests at both. Montezuma Well, a detached unit of Montezuma Castle a short drive away, charges no entrance fee at all.

The Grand Canyon is priced differently again: $35 per vehicle or $20 per person on foot or bike, valid 7 days, with no timed-entry reservation required as of this check and payment by card only at the gate. The America the Beautiful pass is accepted at every one of these NPS sites, which is the strongest argument for buying it over the cheaper Red Rock Pass if a Sedona trip also includes a monument or the canyon rim.

Antelope Canyon sits on Navajo Nation land, not federal or state land, and no pass on this page opens its gate. Entry is only possible inside an authorised guided tour, and on top of whatever the tour operator charges, the Navajo Nation adds its own $15-per-person, per-location, per-day permit fee. There is no independently bookable ticket; the permit is bundled into the tour price by the operators listed on the Antelope Canyon page.

One fact catches visitors who plan their Sedona day around Sedona clocks: the Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time, while the rest of Arizona, including Sedona, does not. A tour confirmed for "9:00 am" at Antelope Canyon can be an hour earlier or later than Sedona's own 9:00 am for most of the year, and turning up on Sedona time risks missing a paid, non-refundable slot entirely.

Three Forest Service rock-art sites near Sedona split into two very different booking models. Palatki requires a Recreation.gov reservation with a pre-selected time slot before a Red Rock Pass or America the Beautiful pass even matters, tours are capped at 14 visitors, and the access road is 5 to 7 miles of rough gravel, so plan at least 30 minutes each way from town. Honanki needs no reservation at all: turn up during its 9:30 am-3:00 pm hours with a valid Red Rock Pass, or buy one from the on-site kiosk, and the site also closes automatically above 100°F or when the access road is impassable.

V-Bar-V, officially renamed Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site, follows Honanki's no-reservation model but on a shorter calendar: Friday through Monday only, with seasonal gate hours (9:30 am-2:30 pm gate close October through May, 8:00 am-11:30 am gate close June through September). All three take the same $5/$15/$20 tiers as the standard Red Rock Pass.

A short, genuine list, none of it requiring a pass, a reservation or a ticket. Uptown Sedona's streets and most of its parking, Tlaquepaque's arts village (free entry and free parking), Amitabha Stupa & Peace Park (free, dawn to dusk, with seasonal parking-lot hours), the Chapel of the Holy Cross (free admission; treat its posted hours as provisional until confirmed on-site, since this guide could not fetch the venue's own page directly), the Sedona Visitor Center, and every ride on the free Sedona Shuttle, which runs Thursday through Sunday, 7:00 am to 5:30 pm, to Cathedral Rock, Little Horse, Soldier Pass, Dry Creek Vista and Mescal with no reservation needed.

One near-miss worth naming so nobody assumes it belongs on this list: the Sedona Heritage Museum charges $10 for adults (free under 13) and is not part of the free-in-town group above; its own hours and grounds are covered on the Sedona Heritage Museum page.

Two annual passes appear on this page, and they answer different trips. The Red Rock Pass annual at $20 breaks even against its own $5 daily rate on the fourth day of Forest Service trailhead parking, which makes it the easy buy for anyone hiking Cathedral Rock or Bell Rock more than three times in a year, including a return visit.

The America the Beautiful pass at $80 is a longer bet: paying separately for a Red Rock Pass annual ($20), one Grand Canyon vehicle entry ($35) and one Montezuma Castle/Tuzigoot 7-day pass ($10) adds up to $65, still under $80. The pass earns its price back once a fourth federal stop, or a second Grand Canyon trip within the year, enters the plan; a single Sedona visit with no other federal park on the itinerary is cheaper paying the Red Rock Pass alone. Arizona State Parks' own $200 Annual Day-Use Pass sits in a separate category again, covering Slide Rock and Red Rock State Park for up to four people on weekends and holidays, and only makes sense for a household returning to those two parks repeatedly across a year, since a single $30 Slide Rock visit is a fraction of the pass price.

Chased down against the official page for each fee, rather than assumed, checked 2026-09-09.

A lost or unused pass

• Red Rock Pass: no fine amount for parking without one, and no replacement or refund policy for a lost pass, are published on the Forest Service program page.
• America the Beautiful pass: explicitly "non-refundable, non-transferable and cannot be replaced if lost or stolen," per nps.gov.
• Slide Rock and Red Rock State Park: general day entry has no reservation, so no refund question applies; the two bookable ramadas at Slide Rock are non-refundable inside 30 days of the date.
• Palatki's Recreation.gov reservation: no cancellation or no-show policy is stated on the fetched Forest Service page.

A full lot or a missed slot

Slide Rock's own page says only that cars are turned away once the lot is full, with no published count and no waitlist. The Sedona Shuttle exists as a free, no-reservation alternative to five trailhead lots, though whether those specific lots are physically closed to private cars while the shuttle runs is not stated on the shuttle's own page either; treat the shuttle as the safer bet on a Thursday-to-Sunday, rather than assume the trailhead lot will still take a car.

Every fee on this page can be paid at its own gate or kiosk on arrival, except the two that require booking ahead of time.

• Red Rock Pass: Recreation.gov, self-serve trailhead kiosks (card preferred, exact cash accepted), or the Red Rock Ranger Visitor Center, 8375 State Route 179, Sedona.
• Slide Rock and Red Rock State Park: azstateparks.com in advance, or the entry-station gate on the day; Slide Rock strongly prefers card, cash must be exact.
• Montezuma Castle, Tuzigoot and the Grand Canyon: nps.gov, or the gate; the Grand Canyon accepts card only, no cash.
• Antelope Canyon: only through the authorised tour operator's own booking page; there is no separate gate purchase.
• Palatki: Recreation.gov for the mandatory reservation, phone 877-444-6777 for the call-center alternative; the pass itself is still bought or shown separately.