Salt River Canyon in the White Mountain Apache Tribal Reservation is a breathtakingly beautiful valley in an otherwise starkly dry and hostile rugged mountain desert. Summer can be extremely hot, fall is comfortable.
On AZ-77 / US-60 about 38.2 miles north-east of Globe, after a bridge over the Salt river, immediately make a left turn, there usually are tribal reservation information signs. You can follow the usually well-maintained gravel road about 4.25 miles to where Cibecue Creek flows across the road. From the parking area it is normally possible to walk or carry the bike across Cibecue creek, if there has not been rain recently upstream.
You can go rafting on the Salt river, continue to mountain bike further along Salt River on the gravel road/trail on the other side of the creek, or go canyoneering in the Cibecue Creek, see komoot.com/highlight/151959 (Danger: Flash Floods, do not enter if it might have rained in the mountains).
A White Mountain Apache Tribal permit is needed to hike or do other recreation here (rafting seems popular). There is a self-registration booth at the turnoff from Hwy 60, but no self-registration envelopes nor staff were available, so better buy permits online before reaching this out-of-phone-signal area:
wmatoutdoor.org/purchase_permit.html - It asks to create a username/password. Click on Special Use Permit, Black River/Salt River, $30 per person for the Cibecue Falls; $9 for vehicle recreation.

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