Oak Creek Canyon is a river gorge located in northern Arizona between the cities of Flagstaff and Sedona.

Oak Creek, a tributary of the Verde River, flows along the bottom of the canyon, and is one of the few perennial streams in the high desert region of northern Arizona.

It meanders past the communities of Page Springs and Cornville, and reaches its confluence with the Verde River about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Cottonwood.

[2] In June 2006, the southern portion of the canyon, near Slide Rock State Park, was affected by a 4,300-acre (17 km2) wildfire known as the "Brins Fire".

[4] The ancestral Oak Creek Canyon was then filled in by gravel deposits and a series of lava flows between 6–8 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch.

The more predominant rock units exposed in the cliffs of southern Oak Creek Canyon are the buff to white colored, frequently cross-bedded Permian Coconino Sandstone and the red sandstones of the Permian Schnebly Hill Formation.

The Oak Creek Canyon census-designated place is within the Flagstaff Unified School District.