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White-water rafting the Salt River Canyon is fairly popular, with 27 sets of rapids and numerous side creeks to explore. [3] U.S. Route 60 and Arizona State Route 77 traverse a winding route through the canyon, descending close to the river at the bottom before crossing the river and then ascending back up the opposite side.
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Salt River alongside State Route 77, September 2006 Rio Salado south of Stewart Mountain Dam. Continuing its westward course, the Salt River is joined by Pinal Creek from the south, just before leaving the Salt River Canyon Wilderness. The river continues to flow through the Tonto National Forest until leaving the mountains near Mesa. Below the ...
Skeleton Cave is a cave in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The cave is within the Salt River Canyon Wilderness and is located on the northern wall of the Salt River Canyon near the Horse Mesa Dam. It was the site of the 1872 massacre of the Yavapai people in the Battle of Salt River Canyon.
Canyon Creek is a 48-mile (77 km) [1] tributary of the Salt River in central Arizona. Originating on the Mogollon Rim , the creek flows generally south to its confluence with the Salt in the Salt River Canyon Wilderness , about 16 miles (26 km) above Theodore Roosevelt Lake .
Theodore Roosevelt Dam is a dam on the Salt River located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is 357 feet (109 m) high and forms Theodore Roosevelt Lake as it impounds the Salt River. Built between 1905 and 1911, the dam was renovated and expanded in 1989–1996. The dam is named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
These ancient deformed rocks are found at the base of the Grand Canyon, in Salt River Canyon, and in mountain ranges throughout the state. Arizona's oldest rocks overall are metamorphosed volcanic rocks, including basalt and rhyolite and related sedimentary rocks, that now constitute the bottom of the Grand Canyon and formed beginning 1.8 ...
Canyon Lake is one of four reservoirs that were formed by the damming of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona as part of the Salt River Project. It was formed by the Mormon Flat Dam, which was completed in 1925 after two years of construction. Canyon Lake, with a surface area of 950 acres (380 ha), is the third and smallest of the four ...