Aerial video of an empty Uptown Sedona on Thursday, April 23

An estimated 4,000 Sedona and Verde Valley residents are normally employed at the retail shops, restaurants, hotels, resorts and offices in the area, but only a few hundred are currently working the area. In April at the height of tourist season, the sidewalks and parking areas are near full capacity, but only a handful of people can be see walking, driving or parked in the area. Video by Daulton Venglar/Larson Newspapers


Daulton Venglar

Daulton Venglar is the the photojournalist for the Cottonwood Journal Extra and The Camp Verde Journal and contributes to the Sedona Red Rock News. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2016. Before working at his current job with Larson Newspapers, he was doing freelance work in Austin and Houston, Texas.

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