Accessible Travel website with trip ideas and downloadable brochure: Accessible Outdoor Recreation Travel Guide created in partnership with Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection, Adventures Without Limits, and Willamette Partnership. Here is another really nice pdf: Oregon Accessibility Travel Guide “From wheelchair users around the state.” Thank you LJ for letting us know about these.
Category: Oregon misc
Disabled Hikers
Disabled Hikers is “… a disability-led organization building community and justice in the outdoors. The website includes detailed trail guides – currently primarily in the PNW but we accept submissions from anywhere.” Thank you to founder Syren Nagakyrie for telling us about it. She “also leads group hikes and provides other resources and does advocacy work.”
Nature For The Blind
Nature For The Blind has a directory of Braille trails for almost every state in the US and for many other countries.
Accessible Trails
Accessible Trails a website by Eileen Garvin is full of suggestions of places to go to enjoy “the breathtaking splendor of Oregon.”
Oregon Hikers Forum
Oregon Hikers Forum is a service of the Trailkeepers of Oregon, a non-profit organization. They provide this marvelous Find a Hike page where you can put in your parameters to look for suitable hikes in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. I chose easy Family hikes with an elevation gain less than 500′ and came up with 186 trails. Limit that to 2 miles or less and you get 81. The Trailkeepers also have the online Oregon Hikers Field Guide for hiking in Oregon and Southern Washington.
Terry Richard Article
“Lots of options for wheelchair, stroller recreation” This is a useful article from The Oregonian, by Terry Richard published March 23, 2008 and updated November 16, 3009.
Access Oregon
Access Oregon published by Oregon Fish & Wildlife is a guide to fishing recreation areas throughout Oregon.
Wheelchairtraveling.com OR
Wheelchairtraveling.com is an outstanding resource.
Access Recreation
Access Recreation Here is a wonderful project in Washington and Oregon.
“Access Recreation [AR] is a Portland, Oregon ad hoc committee that has been developing uniform guidelines for minimum information that should be provided about hiking trails and outdoor recreational facilities, that would benefit hikers with disabilities. These guidelines can be applied to websites, printed materials and at trail sites. …..When put into place, these guidelines will provide the public with easy access to better information on the accessibility of recreational and hiking trails in the states of Oregon and Washington and nationwide.” Georgena Moran, founder and project coordinator, says it is a “two-year project [ends June 2016] and as for now only two trails have been trail mapped the with video accompaniment.” Article by Georgena, “Trails for Everyone”.
Rails-to-Trails – Oregon
The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy lists wheelchair accessible trails in Oregon.