You likely might get a 4 wheel drive that you can rent in Sedona or an ATV or something like this for the road going out there. However, most of the way (if you have enough ground clearance) would be okay in any vehicle (but it is a dirt road). Watch out for the wash board or Corduroy roads because of you go very fast on them you will shake bolts out of your undercarriage or throw your front ends out of alignment. Then after driving 8 or 9 miles off 89a down a dirt road you turn off into something I would call (sometimes a 4 wheel drive road). However, I guess if you really don't care about your car you could take a low slung car as long as you don't knock out the oil pan on a rock. Then you get out there at the place (but if you don't know it from someone like a guide) likely you might never find it.
There is a trail next to a red butte. The shamans cave is on the other side of the Butte. Remember there likely are many rattlers and other snakes nearby this time of year too and since they are cold blooded they are out gathering field mice and stuff like that to eat too. So, listen carefully for their rattles warning you off, especially if you are in shorts because of 100 plus heat like my daughter and I were. I could feel many in the area in addition to the rattling we heard. However, if you are in tune with nature like my daughter and I are likely they will leave you alone especially on the trail up.
Also, it's around the back and what I and my daughter did was to take off our shoes across the worst exposure of about 150 feet straight down. It's only really psychologically difficult for under 10 feet. Most other places the first drop might only be 15 to 30 feet that you could actually survive if you rolled right. So, be prepared to scale a long a cliff at a slight angle barefoot. (If it is raining or moist I would forget the whole thing) because it likely could be slippery and potentially fatal.
However, you could also rope up so if one person fell the others could catch him or her. I noticed that someone pounded in a rebar straight down into the rock where it is bad in order so you could clip in if you had inexperience climbers so you could rope them in. I also wouldn't do this if you get vertigo.
So, because of the snakes around I'm thinking that this Shaman's cave might have also been Snake Medicine or Transmutative Medicine and where Shamans and regular people did their 4 day vision quests with no water and no food while waiting and praying for visions for thousands of years already.
So, the place has this amazing vibe from all this too if you can just slow down enough to sync with it which is hard if you are coming from a big city.
So, hopefully this all works for you some day.
By God's Grace
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