A Visual and Verbal Narrative of Arizona's Salt River
November 11, 2024 – The Phoenix-area canals are literally artificial rivers that carry the Salt’s vital water to valley communities. It should be no surprise, then, the canals are much more than a water delivery system. They are an integral part of the communities they water. In addition to water, they provide transportation corridors, recreational …
November 12, 2023 – As I kept exploring and researching the Salt River, new places to visit continued to reveal themselves, sometimes in surprising ways. One of these sites, the Tres Rio Wetlands, popped up on my computer one day, and I made a trip to visit it along with a few other places on …
July 4, 2023 – Having visited several of the canals north of the Salt River, I felt the need to see one to the south. The maps showed a long bike path on the Consolidated Canal, so I picked that one to explore. The day promised to be hot with temperatures forecasted to reach 115 …
May 24, 2023 – The Phoenix-area canals are one of the central stories of the Salt River. Dating back more than 1,500 years to Hohokam times, the story of the lower Salt River is inextricably linked to the story of the canals that are fed by it. No story of the Salt River would be …
February 21, 2023 – The next day we turned our attention from searching for petroglyphs to visiting the ruins of a Hohokam village called Pueblo Grande. (Pueblo Grande has since been renamed S’edav Va’aki.) Pueblo Grande lies in the heart of Phoenix, next to Sky Harbor International Airport. Around 600 CE, the people of the …