{"id":1862,"date":"2008-04-04T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/wheelchair-accessible-trails-in-the-bay-area\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T17:47:43","slug":"wheelchair-accessible-trails-in-the-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/wheelchair-accessible-trails-in-the-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair-accessible trails in the Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"breakout\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/1235432165\/\" title=\"Onward to the summit by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1047\/1235432165_feaf1290b9_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" alt=\"Onward to the summit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4WheelBob on the way to White Mountain&#8217;s summit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You could just ask <a href=\"http:\/\/4wheelbob.com\/\">4WheelBob<\/a> where he goes, but Bob gave up on &#8220;accessible&#8221; trails years ago. Web sites of the various park districts are all over the map on telling folks which way to point their chairs:  Midpeninsula Open Space District&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspace.org\/activities\/accessible_trails.asp\">page<\/a> is wonderful, Santa Clara County&#8217;s is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkhere.org\/\">invisible<\/a> (if it&#8217;s in there, I couldn&#8217;t find it), East Bay Regional&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebparks.org\/parks\/accessibility\/reports\">is in the middle,<\/a> for instance. <\/p>\n<p>The California Coastal Commission has a free book outlining all the trails near the water &#8212; you can download the book or order it by e-mailing <a href=\"mailto:calcoast@scc.ca.gov\" class=\"contentLink\"> calcoast@scc.ca.gov <\/a> or calling  (510) 286-1015. Link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov\/Publications\/wheel.htm\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Trail Center, based in Palo Alto, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailcenter.org\/guides\/disabilities\/disabilities-03.htm\"> has an excellent page <\/a>describing accessible trails from San Francisco down the Peninsula to Santa Cruz. <\/p>\n<p>Bay Nature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baynature.com\/v06n04\/v06n04s_accessresources.html\">has resources for multiple outdoor activities<\/a> for the disabled (sailing!) and a page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baynature.com\/v06n04\/v06n04s_wheelchairhikes.html\">devoted solely to hikes. <\/a>(Note to self: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.baynature.com\/StoreFront.bok\">Subscribe to Bay Nature <\/a>immediately, if not sooner).<\/p>\n<p>BA Hiker has a page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahiker.com\/extras\/allaccess.html\">all-access and easy hikes<\/a> (thanks, Jane!)<\/p>\n<p>And, last but not least (by a long shot),  Ann Sieck profiles a bunch of North Bay and Marin trails at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairtrails.net\/\">wheelchairtrails.net<\/a> (she&#8217;s also wrote  one of those Bay Nature articles.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairtrails.net\/ccindex.htm\">Here&#8217;s a list<\/a> of her hikes indexed by city.  <\/p>\n<p>I like Bob&#8217;s outlook on accessibility (which he will no doubt expand upon): It&#8217;s not reasonable to expect <em>all<\/em> trails to be made accessible to the disabled, nor even most of them, but there certainly could be more accommodation than there is now. Main thing: you don&#8217;t have to be a fourteener-climbing borderline madman to get a taste of the wilds from your chair.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4WheelBob on the way to White Mountain&#8217;s summit. You could just ask 4WheelBob where he goes, but Bob gave up on &#8220;accessible&#8221; trails years ago. Web sites of the various park districts are all over the map on telling folks&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/04\/04\/wheelchair-accessible-trails-in-the-bay-area\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}