What does it look like to create trails and outdoor spaces that are more inviting, inclusive, and supportive of people living with different disabilities? How can we rethink outdoor spaces and how we communicate about them to welcome people who have historically been marginalized in conservation and the outdoors?
This workshop combines a series of presentations, hands-on adaptive equipment use, and in-field trail assessments. The workshop aims to share the experiences, needs, and challenges of individuals living with disabilities, and provide concrete suggestions for how to identify, eliminate, and minimize infrastructure and informational barriers that prevent wider access to, and use of, trails and lands. Participants will spend time out on the Augusta Nature Education Center's trail system.
Please note that this workshop is not designed to advise participants on how to build or modify trails to make them fully compliant with federal legislation; rather, instruction focuses on making immediate, attainable shifts to trails, infrastructure, and communications that begin to welcome and accommodate a greater number of people looking to be active outdoors.
Please register using this link.
Instruction will be provided by Enock Glidden and Kara Wooldrik with Community Geographics and Maine Trail Finder (learn more about Trail Access & Inclusion work).
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