With the Vermont trials becoming wheelchair accessible, now it is possible for people like Deborah Lisi-Baker to witness the wilderness of Vermont’s Green Mountains. The Camel’s Hump View Trail, built in the early 1990s now has fewer barriers and people with disabilities will be able to enjoy all that life has to offer. Tightly packed gravel helps in holding up well under a wheelchair.
This trial is a part of nationwide push to make more of the great outdoors accessible to people with disabilities. Mount Independence in Orwell, Killington are among other wheelchair-accessible trail covered under this project.
Development of such projects has been slow in Vermont but one additional wheelchair-accessible trail has been opened earlier this summer on Mount Independence in Orwell and another is due to open in Killington this fall.
The Baldwin Trail on Mount Independence made archaeological sites and vistas of the Lake Champlain Valley wheelchair-accessible for the first time. Thundering Brook project is one another step to make trails more accessible. With the Vermont trials becoming wheelchair accessible and other outdoors in the list, disabled people can also look forward to enjoy the gifts of life.
Source: USA Today
