The Salt River glistens with spring runoff from the White Mountains, offering some of the best Class III and IV rapids in Arizona. Experts will guide you around boulders, over gaping holes, and through waves. Between rapids, you’ll marvel at the canyon’s geology and unique natural beauty, characterized by blooming saguaro cacti, soaring hawks and bald eagles, and ancient canyon walls. The mystical power of the Salt River Canyon’s granite gorges, roaring rapids, and brilliant wildflowers is unsurpassed, no wonder this canyon is known as the “jewel of the desert.”