Shopping in Sedona Verde Valley Arizona

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Sedona Verde Valley Tourism Council

SHOPPING

Don't expect to find your typical malls here. What you'll find are numerous excellent shops of regional character in clusters throughout the area.

Prepare for a wonderful Verde Valley and Sedona shopping experience. Our diverse shops carry everything from eclectic jewelry and gifts, to furniture, pottery, souvenirs and more. But what makes shopping with us so unique is the entire experience. Discover a variety of Verde Valley and Sedona shopping experiences from open-air markets, to high-end art galleries in places like Old Town Cottonwood, Clarksdale, Camp Verde, Jerome and Sedona.

Read about Cottonwood Old Town

Read about Camp Verde's Wingfield Plaza

Shopping in Sedona...

Sedona offers prestigious galleries and fashionable shops, enough to challenge the most ambitious collectors and buyers. Indeed, Sedona features five major business areas generally classified by geography and history. These areas are the original uptown, which is a favorite of tourists; West Sedona, often called the real town by residents;

Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village, a 30-year-old collection of Spanish-style buildings remindful of a Mexican hamlet; the Hwy 179 corridor, which includes Hillside and Hozho, and sometimes is called the gallery district; and Village of Oakcreek, an unincorporated community south of Sedona.

Walking the streets in uptown Sedona is a wonderful experience, because not only is this area historically significant, it has become an important shopping district because of an eclectic collection of interesting shops. Also, this area is the site of numerous services, including the chamber of commerce visitors center and, yes, uptown is this city's souvenir headquarters.

Thanks to Sedona Main Street Program, there are relatively new crosswalks and traffic signals in the uptown area, an obvious necessity considering that the number of annual visitors has surpassed 4 million. This part of town also has benefited from the installation of inoffensive street lights, the creation of pedestrian-friendly centers landscaped with red-rock walls and planters, and the addition of public art in the form of large sculptures.

The Hwy 89A strip in West Sedona is a more traditional shopping and service area, which is very important to the lucky people who live here.

The Village of Oak Creek provides an array of shopping opportunities from major outlet stores such as Tommy Hilfiger and the Gap to local arts and craft shops.

In summary, a Sedona shopping experience is more of an expedition than an excursion. It is not a social exercise that occurs in malls with department stores, it is an exploration that leads to nooks and crannies that are fun to find. Instead of checking off items on a list, shoppers find themselves adding to a list of unexpected purchases. And all the time, these people find themselves in spots with sights that are among the most beautiful in the world.

Shopping in Sedona is a wonderful way to become acquainted with this town, its people and its places!

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