Southwest of Sedona is the Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness, one of the most beautiful desert canyons in Arizona. From the 89 in Sedona, turn onto Drycreek road and at its dead end turn left, then at the next dead end turn right (dirt road to left, paved to right) and within the first 100ft you'll find the trailhead parking lot on the right side of the road (sounds vague, but it is the only place on the road until it dead-ends into the Enchantment Resort). This resort appears to be many terra-cotta cabins and cottages strewn about the valley entrance with plenty of senior citizen friendly recreation facilities (sorry if I'm stereotyping).

The trail is fairly simple, leading you into the horshoe entrance of boyton canyon toward the enchantment resort. Keep veering to the left, even past the biking trail that joins within the first quarter mile. Shortly into the trail you'll see a wooden sign on your right hand side with a carved diamond emblem marking the up-and-back trail to the Boyton energy vortex. The hiking is gorgeous on this side trail or if you keep to the main trail either way.

If you take the side trail to the vortex, it shortly opens up to a view of a knoll in between two phallic rock formations (the vortex is in between the two). The trail zig-zags up the knoll and leads you around the back of it. The vortex may or may not form (supposedly similar to the formation of a snowflake or salt-crystal, vibrant and complex sometimes, while dull or not at all other times), but if it does creates subtle pressure around the temples, similar to putting your head up to a big screen TV or submerging to the bottom of a deep swimming pool..

The main trail continues deeper into the canyon for several miles and the canyon narrows the deeper you go. Though there is no trail or markers to it, it is possible to find indian ruins under a red rock overhang to the right of the trail. These ruins are visible from part of the enchantment resort as a rock wall 3 or 4 feet high by 20 feet long. A nearby sign warns you not to disturb the ruins and behave as if you were at a church service. Good luck finding it, but it is there.