Increasing Access Outdoors Workshop
Name:
Increasing Access Outdoors Workshop
Date:
March 16, 2025
Time:
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT
Website:
https://www.merpa.org/
Registration:
Register Now
Event Description:
MRPA and Community Geo are offering MRPA members a FREE full-day workshop as part of the CORA grant!
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.
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.
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.
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.
