2.1 miles away
Honanki Heritage Site
A Sinagua cliff dwelling near Sedona with numerous pictographs, inhabited from about 1100 to 1300 CE and managed by the Coconino National Forest.
Palatki Heritage Site
A Sinagua cliff dwelling site near Sedona, with pictographs and petroglyphs dated to between 1100 and 1400 CE.
- Rank in Arizona
- #342of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 40.5 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Palatki Heritage Site is an archaeological site and park in the Coconino National Forest, near Sedona in Yavapai County, Arizona. Palatki means 'red house' in the Hopi language. The site holds Sinagua cliff dwellings together with pictographs and petroglyphs dated to between 1100 and 1400 CE, and has three interpretive trails. Visitor numbers are managed by the rangers to limit damage to the site.
Where it is
Palatki Heritage Site is a historic site near Sedona, in Yavapai County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Palatki Heritage Site, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/coconino/recarea/?recid=55368(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Sedona
- County
- Yavapai County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 40.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 19.5
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- fs.usda.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 34.9159, -111.9021
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12