WTA’s Hiking Guide has a new filter — one that helps users determine whether or not a trail is wheelchair-friendly. We’ve been working on this tool for a while, relying on insight and expertise from a ...

Five people moved in tandem down a trail, connected by a wheelchair unlike any other. This hiking trail, popular with Bend, Ore., families, is a testing ground for inventor Geoff Babb. One ...

Every Monday, Franklin Ouchida, 61, waits in his wheelchair at a trailhead in Portland for friends to arrive for their regularly scheduled group hike. Always on his lap is his dog Cutie, a 4-year-old ...

Five people move in tandem down a trail as it gets steeper and narrower than the bright orange metal frame connecting them. This trail, popular with Bend, Oregon, families, is a testing ground for ...

On the Kearsarge Pass Trail at an elevation of 9,700 feet, set high on a sub-ridge in the eastern Sierra Nevada, the man in the wheelchair collapsed in his seat. He was unable to turn his wheels ...

A community group leader thought they were planning a fun, low-cost day outdoors—a simple hike and picnic at a nearby ...

At age 16, while he was a student at Middletown High School North in New Jersey, Andrew Crosby was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, told he might not be able to walk by age 30, and prescribed a ...

BEND, Ore. -- It’s a crisp September morning. A good time to go for a hike. For 21-year-old Isaac Shannon, that means strapping into the AdvenChair. “I’m in a wheelchair because I have a mitochondrial ...

The Washington Trails Association’s Hiking Guide has a new filter — one that helps users determine whether or not a trail is wheelchair-friendly. WTA has been working on this tool for a while, relying ...