Department of Energy and Environmental Protection<\/a> –\u00a0 Info on accessibility in Connecticut state parks and forests. \u00a0 From their website: “Accessible parking and picnic tables can be found at all park and forest recreation areas.\u00a0 Public buildings at most state parks are also accessible.\u00a0 The conversion process is continuing with upgraded facilities currently in design for Hopeville Pond, Mashamoquet Brook, Quaddick, and Sleeping Giant State Parks; and Pachaug and\u00a0 Shenipsit State Forests.\u00a0 In 1996, Stratton Brook State Park in Simsbury was the first to have a total retrofit making all park facilities\u00a0 (parking, trails, restrooms, picnic areas, beach) accessible.” \u00a0 See the site for more information on camping, beach wheelchairs, and fishing platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection –\u00a0 Info on accessibility in Connecticut state parks and forests. \u00a0 From their website: “Accessible parking and picnic tables can be found at all park and forest recreation areas.\u00a0 Public buildings at most state parks are also accessible.\u00a0 The conversion process is continuing with upgraded facilities currently in design … Continue reading -Department of Energy and Environmental Protection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}