Salt River Spring water
I don’t know if any of you have run the Salt River down by Tucson AZ, but if you ever get the chance then do not hesitate. Such a beautiful canyon, such fun water. After the first day you start to see the Sauguaro cactus and they don’t leave for the rest of the trip. My passenger is from Tucson and she even said she had never seen so many in one place. The water is pretty constant, rocks, moving, really fun rowing. I used a 14′ and would have been even happier with a 12′ or smaller rig. A bit tight in some places, it looked like we lost cfs, but it was still super fun. Since I’ve been back I’ve heard of 2 friends who were suppose to come on that trip and bailed out and all I have to say about that is NEVER BAIL!!
Have fun out there- high water is coming.
It is a beautiful stretch, but I wouldn’t venture to say its near Tucson. In fact, the Salt is really nowhere near the Old Pueblo as it forms in Eastern AZ from the White Mountains, forming Roosevelt, Apache, Canyon and Saguaro lakes before trickling down through downtown Phoenix.
26 Apr 2009 at 8:52 pm
Hi Bob,
Thank you so much for lining out the river flow! I really wasn’t sure (obviously) where the Salt was running from. I just headed south from Moab until I ran into the put-in!! Such a beautiful stretch of water, great canyons, cactus to end all cactus sightings! I’m very excited to run that stretch again, this time I’ll try check out the actual flow of water.
Happy boating!
Sheri
03 Jun 2009 at 3:28 pm