Are the Salt River horses wild or feral?

Are the Salt River horses wild and native horses, or stray livestock/feral horses? The Salt River wild horses are a historic population of unbranded, unclaimed, wild and free-roaming horses that were born in the wild and are now protected by State Law within the national forest.



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Where can you see the wild horses? Before sunrise and after sunset, along the waters of the Tonto National Forest and into the adjacent Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, visitors have a pretty good chance at catching a glimpse of Arizona's wild horse population.

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How many Salt River wild horses are there? According to the Bureau of Land Management, there are an estimated 500 wild horses dispersed throughout the Tonto Forest. Of course, the herds aren't all together in one specific spot, which means there can be more or less any given day.

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Since the 20th century, nothing has done more to bolster Sable Island's mythic status than its population of roughly 500 free-roaming horses, which have inhabited its dunes since they were abandoned there in the 1700s. Their images pop up everywhere from coffee table books to decorative scarves.

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Lower Salt River: A surprisingly short drive from downtown Phoenix reaches the Salt River, where runoff from the distant mountains waters the desert. Here you can swim, float, and paddle among huge cacti, towering cliffs, and a herd of wild horses.

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The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group is Born Wild horses have been documented along the Salt river since the late 18th Century, well before the area became a National Forest in 1905.

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