Devil's Bridge, Sedona, AZ

Fabulous destination! However, do NOT start your hike at the Dry Creek Road trailhead.  If you do, it's a dusty 2 mile start and unremarkable.  Instead, start at the Mescal trailhead.  This also avoids having to take the new, shuttle service to Dry Creek, Thursday -Sunday. The shuttle service is free and rather convenient but we found easy parking at Mescal.  Signage is good throughout this effort.

We cross a wash that has numerous pockets of water from recent rains.

Mountain bikers use this trail too but this is the only ones we encountered.

The trail enters a dry creek bed for a short distance before exiting.

As I stated, signage is very good.  At mile 1.3, we cross Dry Creek Road where we encounter a couple of high clearance vehicles that were able to make the 2 mile drive from DC trailhead. Otherwise, as I previously noted, you're hiking that 2 miles.  Don't do it, lol.

So far, our hike was mostly a mild ascent but once crossing the road, it steepens....

....in places, really steep.  And then....

....we encounter a small group of hikers who are waiting their turn to walk onto the bridge.

Mostly, people walked to the middle of the sandstone bridge, had their pic taken and then returned but a few needed to have multiple pics in different positions.  There was some grumbling as the line slowly shortened.  I negotiated with the people behind us, as the couple in front of us had done, to take our pic.  

It really is a spectacular image.  The wind had picked up and we were anxious to get off the bridge.  With that, we began the hike back to the RV.

The hike was only 4.5 miles but very scenic, including the boulder, somehow balancing above us.  Lunchtime now so we went into Sedona for dining and retail!