Help for visitors with disabilities

The National Park Service has launched a website for visitors with disabilities and other special needs to help them find accessible trails, programs and activities at national parks.

The website is called “National Parks: Accessible to Everyone.” Many individual parks have sections on their websites about accessibility, and the new national database is a work in progress, incorporating information as it becomes available.

The site lists places where signed interpreters can be arranged for the hearing-impaired and visitors centers that have captioned movies or services for visually impaired parkgoers. There are also detailed descriptions of trails, including the type of surface, for visitors who have mobility issues.