Sedona Arizona ATV trail

Fed up with short and easy ATV trails that leave beginners heaving and you disbelieving? That’s alright if you’ve run out of ideas on where else to ride your ATV because here’s one tough cookie for all you expert ATV riders to munch on. The Airport Loop located in Sedona Arizona that many have said to be one of the tougher ATV trails in Arizona!

This ATV trail runs 10 miles along a rather flat cliff but the ride becomes extremely rocky and tough later on. The good thing is that you can adjust the difficulty level depending on which end of the loop you start off with. The Airport Loop ATV trail consists of, actually, two trails; one facing Sedona and the other facing Oak Creek. Either way, the starting part for both ATV trails start at the parking lot, so, you can head on over there and decide which one you would like to tackle first.

A point to note: not only is the Airport Loop extremely rocky, you ought to bring a healthy supply of replacements because there were many instances whereby we almost got our wheels punctured by embedded rocks which looked somewhat square – go figure! We have to admit that we felt frustrated that we rode our ATVs the entire 10 miles, got poked in various places on our bodies with cactus needles, got stuck on obstacles and some of us spent a fair amount of time fixing flat ATV tires! Indeed, this is not the type of ATV track you’d want to bring beginners to. Challenging doesn’t even begin to describe the Airport Loop ATV trail.

Some of our people felt that Airport Loop was way too hard and turned tail on us, we have to mention this – the cactus thing was truly getting to them. but the rest of us moved on. But that’s because we started at ATV trail which was harder…the one facing Oak Creek. The others completed the other half of the ATV trail which is the one facing Sedona. Many people have said that the easier way to do this is to tackle this ATV trail down in the counter-clockwise rotation – which means that to ride the Sedona side towards the Oak Creek side. Well, it all depends on how difficult and challenging do you want this ATV trip to be.

Some guy back at the counter gave us good advice – he told us that coming down Windsurfer was easier than coming down Unknown Bandit. So, the point is that if you want a really challenging ATV ride along this trail, I would ride to Table Top trail and ride to Unknown Bandit trail. If you’re not up to it, at Table Top, take a turn for Sedona city.

Even for avid ATV enthusiasts like us felt our energy being zapped up by this ATV trail. Perhaps we took on too much and tried too much too soon without understanding the ATV trail before trying it out. But at the end of the day, there is no regret in tackling this ATV trail because in my mind, I can only say one thing….DAMN IT, WE DID IT!

Airport Loop, Sedona, Arizona
Overall Experience: Absolutely exhilarating and energy-zapping!
Difficulty Level: 4/5
Technicality: 4/5
Kid-friendliness: Absolutely NOT!

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