The Sedona Heritage Museum is again presenting their popular historic sites tours of Oak Creek Canyon’s historic places. The tours take place Wednesday, April 24, through Saturday, April 27. Only a few tickets remain.
The tours will be once again guided by Paul Thompson, who has returned from retirement to narrate. Thompson is the grandson of pioneer homesteader Jim Thompson, the Sedona area’s first permanent white settler who came here in 1876, and son of Albert Thompson, who wrote many of the stories in the book “Those Early Days.” His recounting of canyon history is from his first-hand knowledge from growing up there and from the stories he learned at the foot of Sedona’s pioneers themselves.
A comfortable luxury coach will stop at historic places from Uptown Sedona to upper Oak Creek Canyon and back. In all, Thompson will explain 20-some homesteads, squatters’ sites, campgrounds and other historic locations including stops at Bear Howard’s cabin, Purtymun’s Cave Springs kitchen and the Thompson spr inghous e , among others.
Each tour will depart at 2 p.m. and return at approximately 5 p.m. Tickets are $60 for Sedona Historical Society members and $70 for non-members. Space is limited on the intimate luxury coaches. Tickets may be purchased over the phone by calling 282- 7038 or in person at the museum.
The Sedona Historical Society operates the Sedona Heritage Museum in Jordan Historical Park at 735 Jordan Road in Uptown Sedona. Museum hours are daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
