The Northeast offers some terrific trails that are accessible to people with disabilities; here are a few. Visit one on a nice day and take note of the diversity of people using it.

The Buttonbush Trail at the Salt Pond Visitor Center of the Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham, Mass., is a quarter-mile “multi-sensory trail” that features a guide rope for hikers with vision impairment.

The Appalachian Trail now has four sections of wheelchair accessible trail, and a fifth in the works. The first, created with the help of members of AMC’s Connecticut Chapter, was the “River Trail” loop along the Housatonic River in Falls Village, Conn. The latest is a 1,000-foot rerouting of the trail at Thundering Falls in Killington, Vt., with a wheelchair bridge over the Ottauquechee River and a boardwalk across the river’s flood plain. Two others are in Vernon, N.J., and near Shady Valley, Tenn. A new section is currently under construction in Bear Mountain State Park near West Point, N.Y.

Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield, N.H., is in the process of building an entire system of fully accessible nature and hiking trails for everyone on their hilltop conservation property.

John Dillon Park in New York’s Adirondacks was created by International Paper and Paul Smith’s College. The park has 2 miles of accessible trails now open with a total of 3.5 miles planned and nine fully accessible lean-to shelters (seven are currently open).

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