Salt River Canyon

Father Eusebio Francisco Kino visited this canyon in 1698 and called it "Salado" for the salt springs in the area.

This was the heart of the Apache-Yavapai country and one of the last Indians refuges to be penetrated by the United States Army and their Indian scouts before General Crook's winter campaign of 1872-73 chased the Indians out of these twisting, steep-sided canyons. Until at least the mid-1880s the area remained a sanctuary for renegade Apaches who had bolted the reservations.