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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The trail is explicitly wheelchair-accessible and wide enough for comfortable travel along the gorgeous valley scenery. Moreover, it features an elevation gain of roughly 141 feet, making it ...

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 ...

This is an easy, lowland winter walk along a paved trail that’s wheelchair-accessible. The old railroad bed runs north and south through Olympia and Lacey, but the most interesting stretch arguably is ...

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 ...