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I wanted to see the sun rise in Oak Creek canyon, so I took a quick hike up the Thomas Point trail. The morning met me with a brisk wind, but the sky was clear, and I was treated by the brilliance of the sun slowly illuminating the grand white walls of Oak Creek canyon. I then took a quick hike down, and arrived back our villa/hotel by 7 AM, to join my wife for hiking in the morning around the red rocks of Sedona.
But here I want to give some details about the Thomas Point trail head, as the trail head sits rather obscurely at a nondescript point. One key landmark is on the west side of the road directly across from the trail head, and is a thick wood post holding a green house number sign “10055.” South of the sign post about 75 feet sits another marker, a broad red block about two feet square and about five feet tall. The trail itself starts on the east side of the road, at a slanted concrete block embedded in the embankment, about five feet off the road. The old trail head sign of rusted metal sits up the trail about 15 feet, but the concrete block provides a much more visible marker of the trail head.
The trail head lies several hundred feet south of the entrance to the Call of the Canyon park. If one goes to the south end of the parking lot there, a standard wood trail sign points to a fairly overgrown but visible connector to Thomas Point trail. Do not, of course, take the concrete path to West Fork. This connector trail dumps one onto 89A, about 100 yards too far north. But this is close enough to the actual trail head that a short walk south should allow one to see either the green house number sign, or the red brick block, or the concrete block itself.
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