re: Northern Arizona (Sedona, Grand Canyon...etc) Summer Question

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I think this thread sums up my experience trying to figure out temperatures there. I suppose the question is too vague to really pin down. I do wonder if we could fill a 7-8 day trip with unique areas and hikes that would be comfortable? I get the rim of the Grand Canyon would be cooler, but would all of Sedona be very hot?

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sedona will be hot in early june. there is very little tree cover so if it is a sunny day (good bet in june because the monsoon hasn't started yet) you are going to bake. something like the west fork of oak creek would be a decent hike with some shade and water, and of course slide rock is right there. but it will be busy, full of phoenix people trying to escape the heat. I-17 becomes a parking lot from thursday afternoon through sundays in the summertime.

flagstaff is a better bet as far as weather is concerned, and you can hit trails off mt humphreys. we've done aspen corner to bismarck "lake" throughout the summer. the summit of mt humphreys is a sweet hike as well, just get off the summit before the thunderstorms roll in. or hit lockett meadow or closer to town schultz creek and the mt elden trails (which are mostly used by mountain bikers).

another option would be the mogollon rim, pine/strawberry, christopher creek and further afield woods canyon and willow springs lakes. there are high mountain lakes all along the rim road on the mogollon rim and it is heavily forested.

much further afield is show low, pinetop-lakeside and the white mountain apache reservation with trout streams and alpine lakes at 9,000 ft elevation with arctic grayling! before we moved to idaho we'd spend most of our summers on the mogollon rim or white mountains of az. sedona and flagstaff were just way too crowded.