{"id":2492,"date":"2017-07-11T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2017-07-11T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:27:49","slug":"a-wheelchair-users-guide-to-the-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/a-wheelchair-users-guide-to-the-california-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wheelchair User\u2019s Guide to the California Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime is here and beaches are a very common destination for those looking to cool off. California&#8217;s spectacular coast offers many outdoor adventures for wheelchair users, parents pushing strollers, and others who need accessibility features such as a wide, fairly level and firm path of travel. These travel guides and resources that can help wheelchair users choose a destination that suits their accessibility needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Accessible-Beach-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2495\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Accessible-Beach-map.jpg\" alt=\"Color coded map of California highlighting the accessible beach areas \" width=\"357\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Accessible-Beach-map.jpg 475w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Accessible-Beach-map-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accessible Travel Guides<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessnca.org\/\">Access Northern California<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaccessguide.com\/\">Access Santa Cruz County<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accessiblenaturetravel.com\/\">Accessible Nature Travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.org\/plan\/visitors-information-services\/accessible-traveling.aspx\">Accessible San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairtraveling.com\/wheelchair-traveling-in-san-francisco-guide-to-accessible-travel-easy-for-seniors\/\">San Francisco Access Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scc.ca.gov\/webmaster\/project_sites\/wheel\/index.html\">A Wheelchair Rider&#8217;s Guide to the Los Angeles and Orange County Coast (interactive guide<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scc.ca.gov\/webmaster\/ftp\/pdf\/pub\/la_oc_wheel_guidebook.pdf\">pdf version)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scc.ca.gov\/webmaster\/ftp\/pdf\/pub\/sf_wheel_guidebook.pdf\">A Wheelchair Rider\u2019s Guide: San Francisco Bay and Nearby Coast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beach Wheelchairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specially designed chairs that roll over sand are available free of charge at many beaches. Most are manually operated and must be pushed by someone, but a few in southern California are motorized and can be operated independently. Each beach has its own policies regarding chair use. Typically they cannot be reserved in advance, but it&#8217;s advisable to call before you visit to check availability. Please check out this list of beaches that state that they have beach wheelchairs available. <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelingcalscoast.org\/download\/Beach-wheelchairs-2012.pdf\">List of beaches with beach wheelchairs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Beach-wheelchair-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2493\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Beach-wheelchair-header.jpg\" alt=\"accessible power beach wheelchair with colorful umbrella attached sitting on a white sand beach with bright blue water in the background \" width=\"915\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Beach-wheelchair-header.jpg 940w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Beach-wheelchair-header-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>information source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelingcalscoast.org\/resources.php\">http:\/\/wheelingcalscoast.org\/resources.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summertime is here and beaches are a very common destination for those looking to cool off. California&#8217;s spectacular coast offers many outdoor adventures for wheelchair users, parents pushing strollers, and others who need accessibility features such as a wide, fairly level and firm path of travel. These travel guides and resources that can help wheelchair&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}