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LEISURE AND OUTDOORS - OUTDOOR ADVENTURE ORGANISATIONS
ACCESS GUIDES ORGANISATIONS SOCIAL MEDIA
| Our long term goal is to produce track notes for a range of challenging, interesting and exciting bushwalks for people with accessible needs.
Our vision is to equip anyone to enjoy time in nature and to be the first in the world to document an multi-day accessible nature trail experience.
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| We provide a unique service for individuals with disabilities to improve their quality of life through participation in recreational activities of their choice.
Our aim is to support people to balance their life with leisure. This can help with adjustment to disability, improved self confidence and independence through participation in chosen quality recreational and social options.
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| No Limits is a sports club for disabled children, with excellent photos of archery, rock climbing, ten-pin bowling etc. |
| Access Sport America is dedicated to building personal empowerment for people with disabilities through participation in windsurfing and other sports. Our High-Challenge Sports Program adaptive windsurfing, outrigger canoeing, kayaking for children and adults is in full swing in sites throughout New England and Florida. |
| Adaptive Adventures is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to advance the quality of life of people with disabilities through year-round outdoor sports and recreation. Headquartered in Evergreen, Colorado, Adaptive Adventures identifies, promotes and provides progressive sports and recreation opportunities for children and adults of all ages, with physical disabilities.
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| Adaptive Expeditions is an interactive educational nonprofit using sport and recreation to offer health & wellness programs to individuals with physical and sensory disabilities. Through education and outdoor recreation adventures, Adaptive Expeditions empowers individuals with both technical skills and personal confidence to maintain active, independent lifestyles.
In our hometown and around the world we aim to build communities where outdoor adventure seekers and Paralympic hopefuls can share ideas and common experiences, have fun, push limits, and redefine what’s possible. |
| Adaptive Skiing & Off Road Cycling Victoria is set up for people who are interested in Sit Skiing and adaptive riding!; to find out more, share photos and stories or ask questions! Hopefully we can get enough experienced skiers and riders here to help newbies get into this awesome sport and provide somewhere for oldies to show off! So feel free to join up!! |
| A Guide to Outdoor Activity Centres For People with Special Needs
Adventure for All is a formally constituted association of leading residential outdoor activity centres which are primarily for people with special needs.
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| Adventures Without Limits (USA) is mission-directed to empower people of all abilities through quality outdoor experiences. We provide participants with the opportunity to develop new skills, enhance awareness of the natural environment, build self-confidence, and recognize personal potential. AWL can adapt equipment and provide additional staff support to accomodate people with disabilities. |
| Able Management Group (AMG) is a non-profit, member based charity for disabled persons wanting to access the Alpine High Country of Australia. From snow sports to buggy riding and 4-Wheel driving. We even go paragliding and microlighting of the Alpine High Country. No matter what your disability, its about your ability. |
| Back-Up is a national charity dedicated to providing opportunities for spinally injured and abled bodied individuals to experience the buzz of outdoor activities together and so increase self belief, independence and motivation. |
| When quadriplegic Sam Sullivan founded BCMOS in 1985, his goal was to make it possible for people with disabilities to access British Columbia's great outdoors. Sam wanted to surmount the barriers posed by the outdoor environment, thus making it possible for people to experience nature while participating in recreational activities. His dream led to the development of an ultralight-flying program, a disabled sailing program as well as various adventure expeditions such as Kayaking in Costa Rica. This was followed by the development of BCMOS Wilderness Access programs enabling an adapted, low-impact access into the backcountry. |
| Environmental Traveling Companions (ETC)
opens the beauty and challenge of the great outdoors to people with disabilities and under-resourced youth. Every year, more than 3,000 people join ETC to raft whitewater rivers, ski alpine meadows, kayak the waters of the Golden Gate and Tomales Bay, and build leadership skills. |
| Resourcing and inspiring inclusive adventure, sport and active lifestyles with disabled people.The Boma All Terrain Wheelchair is now made in Scotland in the Cairngorms. The Equal Adventure team weld, stick and create the electronics from start to end. We also repair, service and provide parts for existing Boma customers for both the Boma 5 (Saft and Heinzman) and Boma 7. |
| Welcome to the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST), a unique charity that aims to promote the integration of people of all physical abilities through the challenge and adventure of tall ship sailing. JST owns and operates two tall ships, LORD NELSON, and TENACIOUS. These magnificent ships are the only two vessels in the world that have been purpose-designed and built to enable a crew of mixed physical abilities to sail side by side on equal terms.
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| Let us take the complications away. We are your one stop when it comes to adaptive adventure. Join us on your Ultimate Trip of a lifetime or get busy living with your personal Trax Experience. No stress of being denied or misinformed. We are a unique company for disabled run by disabled. Makingtrax is the link between client & company understanding both needs |
| To unleash the potential of the human spirit. Through transformative experiences, tools and inspiration, we help people embark on a quest to contribute their absolute best to the world. In the process, we foster a community of curious, brave and collaborative explorers who are determined to live the No Barriers Life. (Check out the No Barriers Summit 'Arts & Adventure' clinics for an overview of the initiatives undertaken by people from a wide range of ability backgrounds and interests). |
| Making challenge course programs accessible for participants with disabilities. With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, adventure learning programs and challenge courses are required to make their programs accessible to all participants, regardless of their physical or emotional ability.
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| The mission of NORTHEAST PASSAGE is to create an environment where individuals with disabilities can recreate with the same freedom of choice, quality of life, and independence as their non-disabled peers.
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| Paradox Sports seeks to recognize and foster an individuals potential and strength, defying the assumption that people with a physical disability can't lead a life of excellence. We have all been affected by the challenges facing the disabled personally or through family and friends and, as a result, we have chosen to invest our time in making a difference. Whether we're climbing, paddling, biking, surfing or hiking, the physical challenge in a natural environment brings us together as a tight-knit community with a common vision: the desire to live a life of excellence, to pursue our dreams and reach our goals while helping others reach theirs.
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| The mission of the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program (TASP) is to provide people with disabilities the opportunity to experience the freedom of skiing, horseback riding, canoeing and other recreational opportunities and to make the outdoors accessible by using adaptive teaching techniques. |
| The Adaptive Sports Centre in Colorado provides recreational opportunities for people with a full range of ability levels. Although not all activities are suited for every one of our students, many equipment adaptations do exist, making it possible for people with disabilities to participate in Colorado's great outdoors. |
| The Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group (CW HOG), a regional self-help group, was established in 1981 to provide recreational opportunities for people of all abilities. The program is a department of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.
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| Is a relatively young organisation seeking to improve access for people with disabilities to reserves, facilities and services for birding. We have members across the world but the majority live in the UK. There is a separate chapter in the USA.
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| Turning POINT (Paraplegics On Independent Nature Trips) was founded in 1979 by Michael "Shorty" Powers. After an injury at age 17 left Shorty without the use of his legs, he began looking for opportunities to become involved in the outdoor recreational activities that he had always loved. He found no organized activities that were available to people who had major mobility impairments. Not willing to give up his love of fishing, kayaking, scuba diving and hunting, Shorty established Turning POINT to assure that outdoor activities were readily available to people with many types of physical challenges. Turning POINT is a nonprofit organization designed to teach people with mobility impairments the skills necessary to fully enjoy the outdoors, and to provide free or low cost activities. Turning POINT provides the encouragement and support needed for people who have major physcial challengnes in life to fully participate in the adventure of living. |
| Bringing People Together in the Wilderness.
Sharing outdoor adventure with everyone is our mission and our passion. WI offers a wide variety of canoe, sea kayak, dogsled, raft, horse pack and hiking trips throughout North America and the World. The unique thing about Wilderness Inquiry is that we make the outdoors accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities. We hope to see you on the trail. |
| World T.E.A.M. Sports brings individuals with and without disabilities together to undertake unique athletic events throughout the world to encourage, promote, and develop opportunities in sports for all people.World T.E.A.M Sports (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) uses the universal power of sports to create soul-stirring experiences by teaming disabled athletes with able-bodied athletes, forming a true TEAM. |
| The popularity of outdoor adventure sports is massive and continues growing at a fast clip. As an outdoor adventure sport enthusiast myself, I believe this popularity stems from being in the beauty of nature, combined with heightened experiences — flying through jungle canopies, tapping into the power of waves or white water rivers, soaring in the air like an eagle or free-falling while suspended a mile above the earth. In addition to the immediate “WOW!” factor, these experiences create a very positive and profound effect — adrenalin flowing, senses heightened. Emotional baggage vanishes and you enter a Zen state of being fully in the moment — something that stays with you and gives you a new perspective.
Intrigued? Here is a look at certain outdoor adventure sports that are fully accessible, even with very limited arm movement. You can try them without purchasing any additional gear. And you don’t have to be a superjock to do them. If they grab you, you can learn how to do them on your own. |
| The camp, held each year in early May when waterfalls are at their peak and park attendance is moderate, is the brainchild of Rick Mason, the cycling coordinator for Access Leisure. “I got the idea during a visit to Yosemite one spring after a heavy snow year promised spectacular waterfall displays,” says Mason, 58, in his 40th year as a C6-7 quadriplegic. “I brought my handcycle and found there are bike and walking trails throughout the valley floor, and it is the perfect way to explore the area.” |
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