Sedona arizona airport is getting some heat in the local newspaper about noise.The anti airport activists started a poll. You can vote in a poll on the left side of the front page, lets show our support.
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I suspect that the complaints, such as they are, might be about turbine traffic. That's a pretty high dollar community. They don't call it Rodeo Drive of the Rimrock for nothing. My folks had a home there until they ran out of money and I don't recall ever hearing an airplane over town while visiting.

EB

I think a lot of the beef there is the helicopter tours. I used to live there too. Learned to fly there. Or maybe better stated, got started in flying there.
Gary

Not to be entirely judgmental, living a few miles from Sedona, I find the place to be more of a cartoon than a town. It has steadily degraded in the last few decades from a pretty and relaxed place to live, to this well, parody of southwestern living.

My favorite Sedona story is from the guy who used to run the Vacuum Cleaner/Telescope shop (can't make a living at either one, but together I eek by). He used to set up a few scopes in the parking lot in front at night. Folks would come by his store and ask him to "re-charge" their crystals. So he would point it at whatever special star they had in mind , center it in the eyepiece and allow the light to shine upon their crystal for a while, along with the consideration of $20. Other times, really whacked ones would come in asking if he could point out their special star to them, frequently in daylight hours. So he would get a serious look on his face and point some random direction in the sky.

My oldest son, a rather accomplished artist, actually won the art competition for high school students there a few years back. (I did explain it is cool to be a talented artist, get a degree in something useful, that pays money, you can still be an artist; he's a mining engineer now, just moved to Australia). It was really funny and sad to hear the names of the local kids being called off. It was like Frank Zappa gave child naming advice to the residents. My wife kept kicking me to shut me up from giggling.

Last time we went down for a hike on Wet Beaver Creek trail, yes that is really its name (its just on the other side of the exit from Sedona). We passed another couple hiking down. They had bought every silly item of southwestern garb in the tourist shops, swathed from head to toe in fringe, feathers and beads. After they passed around the bend, I laughed so hard my spleen shot out of my mouth. That and the "Pink Jeep Tours".... airport noise, what are they complaining about. I guess I will have to pass out free passes for Sweat Lodge Experiences on street corners to make this die down a bit.

I moved there in the late 70's. It was a pretty fun town then. Left in '91. Felt like the fun was over.

'bout 75% of poll say it's not a prob.

NimpoCub wrote:'bout 75% of poll say it's not a prob.

That may be so, but as we all know it's the 2%'s that always screw things up!

dogpilot wrote: That and the "Pink Jeep Tours".... airport noise, what are they complaining about. I guess I will have to pass out free passes for Sweat Lodge Experiences on street corners to make this die down a bit.

We went to Sedona a couple years ago and did the pink jeep tour to experience the magic vortex and all the energy it generates. My wife and I, and our spoiled ass dog loved it. But for the life of me, I couldn't see any increase in the Jeep's angle of attack from the vortex or the generators.

Like all tourist trap vacation places, it was a really beautiful place, but the locals' primary industry of ripping off the touristas took away some of the magic. I guess we do the same shit here in Hollywood, and they do it up in Denali, and they do it in Orlando...

The city does draw it's share of total crazies, there is a high plateau where cult followers were left standing and waiting for some kind of alien salvation while the groups leader headed off to South America with their money that they would no longer need.

My best friend from country school years has lived there for 35 years building homes while his wife ran a cleaning business for lots of upper class homes. I visited them about 5 years ago and got his personal tour past famous peoples second/third/fourth homes. I remember Nicholas Cage's and Robert DeNiro's. What this means for the airport is those people are still going to want one. (Scratch that for Nick who's broke now.) These and the semi famous/rich is who the city has catered to. The building code was so strict the colors he chose for homes and businesses could not clash with the surrounding mountains. Even McDonald's was refused in until they agreed to change the golden arches to purple to match the terrain, which they did. It was their only purple arches in the world and still could be. At night there were no street lights allowed throughout most of those neighborhoods so that stars coming from the big cities who wanted to see the real stars would not be denied because of light pollution of street lights.

It's a different world alright but if they still want to draw big names and money, they will need an airport.

Kick ass smokehouse/bbq joint in the middle of town on a side street. Stopped in last year driving from Vegas to Phoenix for lunch. Mollys? Millys? Cant remember the name, Great pulled pork

JIm

24 hours ago the poll was 54% "airport is o.k." 43% "airport should move or close down". Today 76.3% for. 22.4% against. Maybe BCP has "spoken".

dogpilot wrote:Last time we went down for a hike on Wet Beaver Creek trail, yes that is really its name (its just on the other side of the exit from Sedona)...

Our friends lived on an unnamed private side street in Girdwood, Alaska. Then it was decided to name the streets so the fire department could find them- residents got naming privileges. Thanks to the neighbors, our friends found themselves on Beaver View Road. And being a private road, you could say it is technically Private Beaver View Road.

Wonder how many more there are out there.

-DP

denalipilot wrote:Our friends lived on an unnamed private side street in Girdwood, Alaska. Then it was decided to name the streets so the fire department could find them- residents got naming privileges. Thanks to the neighbors, our friends found themselves on Beaver View Road. And being a private road, you could say it is technically Private Beaver View Road.

Wonder how many more there are out there.

-DP

I lived on Runamuck Drive in North Pole Alaska. Next street over was Melody Lane.

What ever you do do not wast any money or time on the airport cafe or that is what they call it. The cafe is only for those poor soles from the town.We would go over there several time a year for brunch but not any more. just our view from the poverty pocket!!!

denalipilot wrote:
Thanks to the neighbors, our friends found themselves on Beaver View Road. And being a private road, you could say it is technically Private Beaver View Road.

I'd like to live there myself.

As a matter of fact, I think one of our favorite BCP members has property there, since I've seen photos of him wearing a hat that says "Bush Lover". Come to think of it, he once did offer for me to come visit his spread.

avi8ter wrote:24 hours ago the poll was 54% "airport is o.k." 43% "airport should move or close down". Today 76.3% for. 22.4% against. Maybe BCP has "spoken".

It was a few guys at BeechTalk. They wrote scripts for their computer and just a few people added over 10K votes in less than a day.