Sedona Pickler

Sedona Pickler sits on the quieter western edge of Sedona, in high-desert country minutes from the red-rock trailheads, but the detail worth noting is behind the walls: a private, regulation-size pickleball court built indoors, playable in any weather and at any hour.

The four-bedroom home sleeps eight and rents as a whole-house stay, mostly to families, pickleball clubs travelling together, and groups who would rather have a court to themselves than share a public one on a schedule. The court is the reason most guests book it, but the house around it — a single-storey home with a covered deck, a fire pit, and a pair of outdoor tubs — holds its own.

The space

The house is a single-storey stucco home on a desert lot, with four bedrooms and two bathrooms sleeping eight guests across five beds. Two bedrooms have king beds, one of them ensuite; a third has a queen. The fourth is a bunk room set up as a game room, with twin-over-twin bunks, a foosball table, and a media lounge.

The shared spaces are built for a full group: an open great room, a kitchen with bar seating and a full run of appliances, and both an indoor dining table and a covered outdoor one for meals on the deck. There is a fire pit outside and two freestanding soaking tubs on the back deck, with unlimited hot water — no pool, but a warm soak under a Sedona sky.

The court is the reason the house exists as a rental in the first place. It is a regulation-size indoor pickleball court, heated for winter mornings and air-conditioned against the summer heat, fully lit so a game works at 6am or 10pm alike. Because it is enclosed rather than fenced, the sound stays inside the building — the house's own website pitches it as the answer to the noise complaints that have closed outdoor courts elsewhere in Arizona. Paddles and balls are supplied, so a group can walk in and start playing without bringing any gear of its own.

The setting

The house sits in West Sedona, on the quieter western side of town, within a short drive of the red-rock trailheads that draw most visitors here — Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, and the Airport Mesa Loop among the closer ones, with longer hikes like Devil's Bridge and Boynton Canyon a bit further out. It works as a base whether the plan is an early scramble up Cathedral Rock or a slower morning followed by a drive along the Red Rock Scenic Byway.

Uptown Sedona's restaurants and galleries, along with the Tlaquepaque arts village, are a short drive from the house. As with most private rentals in the area, the exact address is released once a booking is confirmed rather than published outright.

Who it suits

This is a house for groups, not a quiet couple's weekend. The listing is built around families, pickleball clubs travelling together, and friends who would rather have the court to themselves than book into hourly slots at a public one. It suits a family reunion with kids who need somewhere to burn off energy, or a club bringing eight players who want to play at 9pm without waiting on a public court to free up. It is a harder fit for a quiet couple's trip — the house sets a minimum age of 25 to book and does not allow parties — but at its core this is a group home built around a court that comes with the house, not an afterthought down the hall.