Chicken Point overlook
— the ledge where the red rock opens.
Not only on a wall.
“A wide slickrock platform on the Broken Arrow Trail east of Sedona, with Submarine Rock to the north and the long view across to Lee Mountain. Pink Jeep tours have run the route since the 1960s. The slab is open enough that the wind has nothing in front of it. Late morning shadows have not reached the floor yet.
Chicken Point overlook, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Chicken Point sits at roughly 4,500 feet on the eastern flank of Sedona, inside Coconino National Forest. The overlook is a broad Schnebly Hill sandstone shelf at the south end of the Broken Arrow Trail, named for the tight bend the route makes on approach. To the north lies Submarine Rock; to the south and east, Lee Mountain and the Munds Mountain Wilderness. Foot access runs from the trailhead at the end of Morgan Road, and commercial Pink Jeep tours approach from the same corridor.
The platform is a single continuous slab of Schnebly Hill Formation sandstone, Permian-age and iron-stained, deposited around 275 million years ago when this corner of Arizona was a coastal dune field. The colour ranges from terracotta through oxblood depending on the angle of the sun and how recently it rained. Long sweeping arcs of cross-bedding mark where wind once moved sand at scale. Erosion has cut the south edge into a clean rim with a roughly fifty-foot drop into the wash below.
Chicken Point is reached on foot via the Broken Arrow Trail, roughly 3.5 miles round-trip from the trailhead at the end of Morgan Road. The route climbs about five hundred feet over slickrock and packed earth and shares the corridor with commercial jeep tours; uphill hikers yield. A Red Rock Pass or America the Beautiful pass is required to park. Mornings are coolest in summer; winter days are clear, but the slickrock can ice over in shade. There is no water on the route.