Outdoor Leadership Curriculum Project

Local Wheelchair Accessible Trails

• Bangor City Forest
  • Orono Bogwalk
    • 5 miles from campus
• Acadia National Park
  • Jesup Path and Hemlock Path
  • Jordan Pond also has a variety of small accessible trails. Although not quite a trail, the intertidal zone has parts between Bar Island and Bar Harbor that are wheelchair accessible
    • 60 miles from campus
    • See the full accessibility guide for the park here
    • Resources for visual and hearing impairments are also available on request
• Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
  • Corea Heath Division Trail
    • 66 miles from campus

Additional Resources for Finding Accessible Trails

Accessible Nature

• This site lists a wide range of accessible trails across the state of Maine with a ranking system to show if a trail is suitable for wheelchairs, or if it is suitable for limited mobility users that do not require a wheelchair. Information is available for other states.

Trail Access Project
Disabled Hikers

Visual Impairments

What is a Braille Trail?

These are nature trails with aides to help visually impaired visitors independently experience the trail. These usually have braille informational signs, giving them their name. They also can have guide ropes, audio components, and other aspects such as tactile walkways

We have one here in Maine, the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses. This is in Boothbay, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. It features braille informational signs and a sensory garden.