Category: Indiana State

Harmonie State Park 
Harmonie State Park, lies on the banks of the Wabash River near New Harmony.  There are two ADA cabins.
Phone 812-682-4821    Map    Here is their website.
? Trails #5 and #6 are both 0.75 mile long and described as easy.  Better call first to learn more.

Summit Lake State Park  
Summit Lake State Park offers bird watching, a wildlife observation area, good fishing, and the nature preserve, Zeigler Woods.
Map and Brochure   Here is their website.  Phone 765-766-5873
Beech Trail 0.9 miles “…starts in a small wooded lot. The trees include maple, oak and cherry. The remainder of the trail is mostly open, with views of the lake across rolling topography.”

McCormick’s Creek State Park
 McCormick’s Creek State Park, Spencer, has a limestone canyon, flowing creek, and scenic waterfalls.  Hiking trails feature diverse forest trees, spicebush, and native wildflowers, including a trail through Wolf Cave Nature Preserve.
Phone 812-829-2235   Map and Brochure     Here is the DNR’s website.  Here is another, commercial website.
Trail #8 0.7mile paved

? Trails #6  0.6 mile, and #9  1.2 miles are described as easy, but that doesn’t mean they are barrier-free.  Call ahead.

Fort Harrison State Park
Ft. Harrison State Park, on the NE of Indianapolis,  is a 1,700 acre park with a blend of landscape and history.  It includes four nature preserves.
Map and Brochure    Phone 317-591-0904.   Here is their website.
? Harrison Trace Trail  3.2 miles asphalt surface trail for “walkers, bicyclists and joggers.”  It is described as easy, but there are some hills.  Call ahead to see if it really would work for you with your kind of wheelchair.
? Tree ID Trail 1 mile mowed and said to be easy.

Pokagon State Park/ Trine State Recreation Area
Pokagon State Park, Angola,  “…is framed by Lake James and Snow Lake, which offer abundant opportunities for boating, swimming, fishing and scenic sunsets.”
Map and Brochure   Here is their website.    Phone  260-833-2012
Bike Trail 1.6 miles “Connects campgrounds, Nature Center, saddle barn, Inn and park entrances.”
? Trails #4 (1.4 miles) and # 5 (0.7 miles) are said to be easy.  Call ahead to be sure.

Potato Creek State Park
Potato Creek State Park, North Liberty, has a “…variety of natural habitats …, including the 327-acre Worster Lake, old fields, mature woodlands, restored prairies and diverse wetlands.”  “Native peoples used the area for hunting and fishing. The area’s first people of European descent settled here in the 1830s.”     Map and Brochure      Here is their website.  Phone 574-656-8186
? Trails  #5 (1 mile), #6 (0.5 mile), Friends Wetland Trail (0.75 mile), and Peppermint Loop Trail (0.9 mile) are all described as easy.  Call ahead to learn more.
There is a short accessible trail to the beach and accessible fishing pier.

Ouabache State Park
Ouabache (pronouced Wabash) State Park, Blufton,  runs along the north side of the Wabash River.  Although the Indiana Recreation Guidebook shows accessible hiking for this park, I don’t see that on their map.
Map   Phone 260-824-0926   Here is their website.
? Trails #1 (1 mile), #2 (1.5 miles) and #3 (1.5 miles) are all described as “easy”.  Call to learn just how easy.
?  There is a paved bicycle path more or less parallel to the river.  Call to see if it would work for a wheelchair.

Indiana Dunes State Park
Indiana Dunes State Park’s 2,182 acres lie at the north end of State Road 49 in Porter County, and includes more than three miles of beautiful beach along Lake Michigan’s southern shore. Sand dunes tower nearly 200 feet above the lake.  A wide range of habitats provides homes for many types of plants and animals.
Map   Phone (219) 926-1952  Here is their website.
The only trail with an accessible icon on the map is to the beach and described as “moderate.”
Trail #2 is 3 “easy” miles and good for early spring flowers and ferns. Best to call to be sure it is easy for you.

Brown County State Park
Brown County State Park is Indiana’s largest park at almost 16,000 acres of “rugged hills, ridges and fog-shrouded ravines. Glaciers from the most recent ice ages stopped short of the ‘hills o’ Brown,’ but their meltwaters helped create the narrow ridges, steep slopes and deep gullies of Brown County State Park. ”
Here is their website      Phone 812-988-6406
Friends Trail “Short, easy, paved trail, with benches and vista on flat terrain.”

Indiana Recreation Guidebook
This guide to recreation in Indiana has a short entry for each of the many parks.  There is a location map, phone number, and a set of icons for the different amenities.  Seventeen of them have a dotted line indicating accessibility around the hiking icon.  It will take me a while to learn about these, but if you have a favorite, please let me know and I will add it to this site.