Travel

Here are some links to sites that deal primarily with traveling and travel arrangements. Additional links to travel information are posted on the Guided Tours and Adventures page.

Have you travel guides, references or ideas you would like to see mentioned on this website? Please Contact Me with your suggestions using the form in the sidebar.

  • “Resources for the Disabled Explorer”  Here is a wealth of advice and links for travelers with mobility, hearing and visual disabilities by Patti Jackson of the Wakanow Travel Agency.

  • Access Anything  is a website for an group based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, that offers travel advice with emphasis on outdoor activities.

  • Accessible Travel Worldwide is a rich site with links to accessibility in many parts of the world.

  • Accessible Nature Travel: A travel guide for folks with wheelchairs, walkers, canes or strollers by Randall Feare is a travel guide to 22 states and British Columbia.  There is also a list of valuable links to additional resources.

  • Dignity Travel  offers “Easy and Accessible” tours around the world.  Kristin wrote that “I went on a guided tour to Iceland with… [them]…. and it was excellent. It was 100% wheelchair accessible and great for slow walkers. They even provided a wheelchair for me as I was a slow walker with endurance issues. I would recommend them to anyone looking to travel with a small group. They do trips all over the world that change from year to year but also have yearly trips to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands.”  Here is their website.

  • Disability Air Travel   This article from Disabled World.com is full of travel tips as well as links to other publications addressing travel for disabled and seniors travelers.   Thank you to Lisa Gonzalez of Elderscorps.org for bringing this publication to my attention.

  • Emerging Horizons contains “travel information for wheelchair users and slow walkers.”

  • Resource Review of Travel and Accessibility for the Disabled  from the USInsurance Agents   The full title of this excellent article is “Cars, Boats, Planes and More: An Essential Resource Review of Travel and Accessibility for the Disabled”   Thank you to Hospitality Tourism instructor Keri Evans for bringing this to my attention.

  • RVing Accessibility Group
    This is a great resource of “accessible resource information to disabled RV travelers and caregivers who want to experience the joy and freedom of RV travel by being able to access accurate information about RV parks and rest areas that are ADA accessible, which meet the needs of physically challenged RV travelers.”  Here is their website.   Phone 970-903-7442  Brochure

  • Society for Accessible Travel and Hospitality  Here is an amazing list of over 40 websites addressing the needs of disabled travelers.

  • TabiFolk   formerly called “Accessible Travel Forum”  is a rich source of information sharing for disabled travelers and those serving them.  “It is more than just a forum, it is a place for conversations.  You can share great information you found, or ask for help from a local resident or a fellow traveler who went before you, you can even find a shoulder to cry on if you had a bad experience.”  Thank you Josh for letting me know about this resource.

  • The Disabled Traveler’s Companion by Ron and Kay Wilmer, with great photography by their son, Roger Wilmer.  This excellent website gives information about five of the National Parks and Tahquamenon Falls State Park in Michigan.

  • The Handicapped Travel Club   “… was formed in 1973 to encourage traveling for people with a wide range of disabilities. The HTC encourages people with disabilities and their families to travel, to meet and to share information on making recreational vehicles accessible for the disabled.”

  • Travelability.com  “… organizes assisted tours personalized for all with disabilities and dependencies or with certain diseases, offering high standard support services and a unique experience beyond the usual tourist spots. ”  Be sure to type the /en after .com in the address to get this page in English.

  • WheelchairWorld.org    “….is a collection of reviews and information, found through intensive Internet research or submitted directly to Wheelchair World, that help wheelchair users and other Persons of Reduced Mobiilty (PRMs) to be better informed of the accessibility at their destination of choice and to feel more confident when traveling to, from and around the destination.”   Thank you Susie Twydell for contacting me about this useful source of information.

  • Wheelchairtraveling.com is an outstanding resource.  There is information about parks, trails, camping and many other opportunities.  There are a great many posts about accessible places in California as well as posts for Virginia, Colorado, Kentucky, Arizona, Hawaii, Wyoming, Alaska, Oregon, South Dakota, Mane, Florida, Utah and British Columbia.

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