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Yeah, the website is kind of a hot mess of conflicting, vague, and incomplete information. Call first.

Interesting. There was a tribal officer right at the bottom of the Salt River Canyon that was checking permits. He asked where I was going and I described the route I was taking. He mentioned nothing of it being closed. So I guess you should call ahead and verify.

This will probably be my last trip on or through the Apache reservation. Not that I don't mind paying $20 to enjoy it for the day, but getting off of it is so dang hard. The entire boundary appears to be fenced, with like 8,000 miles of 5-strand barbed wire fencing. Ugh. I spent about an hour...

Crossing Canyon Creek was easy, and I stopped there for a bit to enjoy the water and the afternoon sun. Fortunately, I made it past the snow bank.

I ran across exactly one human habitation on the trip, and this was at the intersection of many "route 12's". From there going east, you could get into Cibecue, I took the route 12 headed NW from here up towards the Young highway. It is hard to spot, it is through a non-descript gate just to...

After 16 miles, I turned off of IR 29, and north onto IR 30. The signs are faded and barely readable. The last few mile of IR 29 before the turn off take you up and away from the Salt River through some really pretty country. A spring creates a muddy crossing high on the steep sides of the...

I took a trip last weekend from the bottom of the Salt River Canyon to the Young-Heber Highway just north of Young itself, where FR101 intersects it. Once leaving the Salt River Canyon, it generally follows Canyon Creek, which is one major drainage east of Cherry Creek. Beautiful country, and...