Surprise, West Sedona Designated Dispersed Camping

There were a few trailers/campers setup during the day, but for the most part everyone comes in at night. Good sunrise with hot air balloons. This one is closest to the highway. The others are about 5-15 mins drive up the road with similar setups.

Great for a quick and quiet overnight stop, not too crowded for a Saturday night

We pulled in passing thru Sedona, there were about 20 campers in a big dirt lot. By morning 60 +campers but quiet the whole night. No amenities but it was quiet. Hot air balloons and early morning adventurers made it fun.

It's decent, it's free, but they removed the port a potties last week and never replaced them. If you go further in the views are prettier but Thurs through Sat you get the weekend crowd and with that ppl parking right next to you as if it's at the front of a wm parking lot during the day. We even had 2 said weekenders in cars box us in even though we were clearly car campers. I had to reverse a ft and go forward a ft like 15 times to squeeze out and barely managed not killing the plants or scratching their car as im not cool with being trapped by strangers for the night 😅😂

Okay overall - basically a big dirt lot with people constantly coming and going. Please- check the weather before you get here. I have a 2wd van and made the mistake of parking in the back of the lot. It rained for the next several days, and the dirt lot transformed into a mud pit. This is not normal mud - it's wet concrete mud. I was stuck here for 4 days before somehow making it out due to pure desperation. I realize this is all human error on my part, but something to be aware of. FYI - the only way through the mud is the pedal to the medal it the whole time. I won't be back.

Dirt lot that gets full every night. Even in March. Close to good OHV areas and only 8 miles south of downtown, which is great.

We stayed here for a night and it was great. It was busy but the main reason we picked it was because it was close to Sedona so it was nice and easy for us to go in for a sunrise hike. We stayed in the first pull off lot on the left hand side that didn't have no camping signs (past Surprise), it had a porta potty which was definitely nice to have. Seems like they must block off sites every now and then because some of the ones marked on dyrt were blocked with rocks but still lots of space!

Plenty of space. Drive deeper in (after the forbidden signs) you will see a big tent sign with an arrow pointing left (see pics)

It's called "Surprise"

Dispersed Camping Sedona

Had to drive farther down on the road than marked. Didn’t allow camping in first few lots. Very full but found enough space even arriving after dark. Porta potties were available.

It worked as a place to sleep for the night in our van and the view was rather majestic in the morning but it was very crowded with more than 30 cars and RVs. They did have two porta potties

It has been closed off with rocks. South loy butte is still open. Just an open dirt lot that works for an overnight stop. No fires allowed.

Great site! This is was my first site I used on my road trip. There is about a 2 mile road from the main road and 1.5 miles of that is rough but my mazda did fine. Just go slow. Had a nice breeze and views of the mountains. There are a lot of off roading that goes on in the area but it stops before dusk.