Tonto Basin News

Do you remember a question a few weeks ago from a reader who said that he went to summer camp at Peppersauce Canyon near Globe and had heard lurid stories about a ranch war in the area in the late 1800s? I couldn't find anything about such a feud, but I did dredge up a range war in the Tonto Basin and fobbed it off as a substitute.

As a young man in 1969, I worked at a summer Salvation Army camp in Peppersauce Canyon near Oracle.

On its lower reach, West Clear Creek Canyon is wide, wet and inviting. But just 4 to 5 miles up it becomes an extremely narrow canyon, passable only by floating ponds and scaling cliffs.

On this date in 1903, the U.S. Department of the Interior authorized the construction of Tonto Basin Dam, now known as Roosevelt Dam.

Three people have been arrested in Tonto Basin in connection with a burglary earlier this week at the Cactus Flats Bar.

Cindy Pool's friends and family can't believe that she's gone. Not because her death was sudden, or because she was too young.

HIKING TRAILS D ogie Trail This trail comes by its name honestly. Dogie is cowboy slang for a motherless calf, alluding to the area's ranching history.