Trails for Everyone: Planning Inclusive Trails
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About This Webinar
People often say that getting outdoors is now one of their favorite activities. However, many people interested in nature and the outdoors face limits when they try to do just that. Unfamiliarity with the outdoors, poor fitness, health or disabilities, do not necessarily eliminate a person’s desire for outdoor experiences, just as one’s economic or cultural background do not. We all deserve access when it comes to experiencing nature, so how can land trusts develop trails that seek to meet the widest range of needs for their community while at the same time protect a property’s conservation values? Join Larry Knutson and Sarah Walter, from Penn Trails LLC, co-authors of Trails for All People: Guidance for Accessibility and Inclusive Design (2021) as they lay out strategies land trusts can use to make their trails more universally accessible. Providing examples of successful projects, this webinar is a must for land trusts who want to ensure their trails are welcoming and accessible to all.
Here’s a look at what we will cover:
Considerations to keep in mind when planning and managing trails
The principles of Universal Design and how they can be applied to trails
The importance of considering accessible design parameters for one or more of your trails
Penn Trails LLC, a cloud-based Pennsylvania company, works nationwide with public and non-profit landowners to provide trail planning, design and construction focusing on universal design and support for diverse groups of people, often in environmentally sensitive or challenging locations.
- Alliance members: $75.00
- Non-members: $115.00
Trails for All People: Guidance for Accessibility and Inclusive Design
How can trail groups, local governments, and land trusts responsibly plan, develop, and operate trails that are accessible by all people, including those with limited mobility? What are best management practices? What is legally required? When is universal accessibility not appropriate?
Open to All: A Disability Inclusion Guide for Land Trusts
Created in 2021, this publication provides examples, advice and guidelines to help land trusts address and remove the barriers that prevent inclusion of people with disabilities in programs and on nature preserves.
Interpreting the Land: Helping More People Benefit from Conservation
Nationwide, land trust staff report a growing need to reach people from more diverse backgrounds, abilities and cultures. As social demographics change, they’re seeing greater demand for accessible trails and new means of interpretation that bring visitors closer to nature.
The Cedar Swamp All Persons Trail
The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire has constructed a universally accessible trail at the Manchester Cedar Swamp, with the hopes of introducing this hidden ecological gem to visitors of all abilities and comfort levels. A process guidebook and other resources are available.
Disability 101 & Leadership
As accessibility and inclusion become a high priority for land trusts, many ask: where do we start? This webinar will feature the founder of Disabled Hikers, Syren Nagakyrie, as they discuss ways our land trust members can center and uplift the voices and expertise of the disability community.
Add an "A" for accessibility
It's been my experience that rarely is disability and accessibility part of the diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) conversation, which I find a little intriguing because disability is a part of all human existence.