"Accessibility" is the politically correct term (which translates as impersonal, confusing and counterproductive) for "those with handicaps or special needs".

If you are temporarily or permanently handicapped in some way, the park service can help you gain easier access to national parks through this new site. A great idea. This doesn't mean that the NPS is finally installing ramps, and wheel chair lifts everywhere. It's just routing most of its special needs access info into one hub making it easier to make choices on where to head for your next vacation.

I feel it important to note here that the site is still under construction and may not work all of the time; a fact that the park service doesn't make totally clear in the A.P. article below. However, the idea is a great one and certainly needed. Adventure-Crew suggests that those interested book mark the link and check back often. I know we will.
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FROM THE A.P.; Washington—The National Park Service has launched a Web site for visitors with disabilities and other special needs to help them find accessible trails, programs and activities at national parks.

The Web site at http://www.nps.gov/pub—aff/access/index.htm is called "National Parks: Accessible to Everyone."

Many individual parks have sections on their Web sites 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 which visitor’s centers have captioned movies or services for visually impaired park-goers. There are also detailed descriptions of trails, including the type of surface, for visitors who have mobility handicaps or use wheelchairs.

A description of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example, notes that most park trails are "steep and rugged," but a half-mile paved trail can be found on Newfound Gap Road south of the Sugarlands Visitor Center, along the West Prong of the Little Pigeon River. The path even has tracks of a black bear that happened to wander across the wet concrete when the trail was built.

"We still have a way to go before we can say we are accessible to all, but that is our goal and we will continue to work to achieve that," Mary A. Bomar, director of the National Park Service, said today.

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