If your are coming from the Grand Canyon heading south, come down Oak Creek Canyon, drive through Sedona and the Village of Oak Cree, go to V-V, then do Montezuma, continue to Fort Verde, take route 260 to Sedona, use lower Red Rock Loop Road (before you enter west Sedona) to cruise Red Rock State Park. The next morning begin with Palatki and Honanki, Old Town Cottonwood and Dead Horse Ranch State Park, on to Tuzigoot, and then Ghost Town Jerome. From Jerome keep going west over the mountain to Prescott and take Hwy 69 back to I17 to go to Phoenix.