Here is a list of the Parks of Greater Kansas City with brief descriptions and phone numbers.
Author: Cecilia
City of Anaheim
City of Anaheim
Oak Canyon Nature Center
Oak Canyon Nature Center’s Main Road is accessible for strollers and wheelchairs. The 58-acre natural park is in the Anaheim Hills. The park consists of three adjoining canyons and there is a year-round stream. There are four miles of hiking trails which traverse one of the few remaining areas of oak woodland and coastal sage scrub in this region. There is an interpretive center, a small museum with live animals and regional natural history exhibits.
Here is Anaheim’s website and here is the website for Oak Canyon Nature Center. Phone 714-998-8380 Trail guide
Main Road 0.7 mile ” bisects the center of the canyon, offering hikers an open view. The road is level and accessible to both strollers and wheelchairs.”
Crane Trust Nature Center
Crane Trust Nature Center
Crane Trust Nature Center, on the south side of the Alda interchange on I80, near Grand Island, has prairie, river-edge and riparian forest trails. A trail from building over the pedestrian bridges to the edge of the prairie is handicapped accessible. Call 308-382-1820 for information. Here is their website.
Pottawattamie County
Pottawattamie County
Hitchcock Nature Center has 10 miles of trails, many of which are marked easy on the trail map. MomsOfOmaha.com mentions a wheelchair accessible nature trail, although I don’t see it on the map. Call 712-545-3283 for information.
City of Fridley
City of Fridley
Springbrook Nature Center has “127 acres of native prairies, oak and aspen forests, oak savannah, and extensive wetlands.” There is a “½ mile of boardwalk over wetlands, [and] a paved handicap accessible trail”. Call 763-572-3588 for information. Here is Springbrook’s website.
Fort Kearney State Recreation Area NE
Fort Kearney State Recreation Area
Here is the SRA’s website. Phone 308-865-5305 Map
Fort Kearny SRA “…offers 186 acres dotted with sandpit lakes. In the spring, the world’s largest concentration of sandhill cranes and waterfowl gathers in
the central Platte River valley. ”
Fort Kearney Hike-Bike Trail begins at the park and extends 1.8 miles to Bassway Strip Wildlife Management Area, crossing both channels of the Platte River and was once a segment of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. TrailLink describes the trail as wheelchair accessible.
-Washington State Parks ADA Recreation Map
Washington State Parks ADA Recreation Map
Washington has over 100 State Parks. About 34 of these have ADA accessible trails. I am only posting about a few. Here is Washington State Parks’ searchable ADA Recreation Map. Click on each state park to see what ADA amenities are available. If you have a favorite accessible or just very easy trail in a state park I don’t mention, please let me know and I will add it to this website.
The Discover Pass, required for Washington State Parks and other State lands, is not needed by those holding Disability placards and license plates.
-Virginia State Parks
Virginia State Parks Accessibility statement. The website states that there are 16 accessible trails amounting to 12 miles. For information, contact the State Parks Customer Service Center at 800-933-7275 or the individual parks.
Each park’s website has a thorough description of accessibility. You can find it by clicking on “Other info” from the home page.
The Trail Guides for the parks list many trails listed as “easy”. Their definition of easy is : “From .5 to 1 mile; grades are short, typically fewer than 100 feet and less than 10 percent of the trail length; easily accomplished by all users, including the elderly and those with physical or mental disabilities, with little risk of injury or fatigue”. There are too many of these trails for me to list here, but if you have some favorites, please let me know and I will add them.
Search by Amenities This webpage lets you search through the state parks using the features that you want.
New York State Parks & Historic Sites accessibility statement
New York State Parks and Historic Sites‘ page on accessibility
State Parks
State Parks
The University of Delaware’s Center for Disabilities Studies has produced this list of Access Pass Programs for State Parks. There are links to each state’s parks pass site and also links to sites describing accessible amenities where available.
StateParks.com lists most of the national and state parks and beaches, recreation areas and wildlife refuges for each state. There are links to very brief descriptions of each.