Accessibility

The National Park Service is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have equal opportunity to benefit from our facilities, programs, services, and activities whether they are indoors or outdoors. Discover accessible features in parks and learn more about what we do to provide accessibility across the National Park System.

Please contact us for any questions regarding the park's accessibility.

 

Physical / Mobility Accessibility

 

• Parking: Four spaces are designated as mobility accessible parking at the Visitor Center, and one space is designated as mobility accessible at the Picnic Area. All parking areas are paved.
• Routes: A flat concrete sidewalk leads from the parking lot across pavement and then turns to brick at the entrance.
• Entrance / Exit: The front and back doors at the Visitor Center operate on a push-button door opener. The back door leads to a wooden deck with a wooden ramp.
• Restrooms: The men's and women's restrooms at the Visitor Center are wheelchair accessible with the door operated by a push-button.
• Water: An inside water fountain and water filling station is wheelchair accessible.
• A brick ramp inside provides access from the upper level to the lower level.

• The entrance to the Nature Trail is in the picnic area parking lot across from the restrooms. It is a 1-mile round-trip trail. The trail begins with a gravel section and steep decline that leads to a dirt trail with varying terrain.
• The Dancing Marsh Loop Trail can be accessed from either the Memorial Area of the park or from the Nature Trail. It is a ¾-mile round-trip trail. The trail is mostly flat and covered in dirt and grass. There are boardwalks to cross marshy areas. A boardwalk footbridge crosses at the intersection of Dancing Marsh and Popes Creek. The trail near the Rockefeller Barn has a relatively steep and grassy decline. The section of the trail near Popes Creek is a steep incline/decline with loose gravel steps that lead to a boardwalk footbridge.
• The entrance to the Popes Creek Trail begins in the Memorial Area. It is a mostly flat trail covered with loose gravel.
• The upper trail to the Memorial Area begins at the Visitor Center. It is mostly flat and covered with loose gravel. It is 300 yards, one-way, to the Memorial Area.

 

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Deaf / Hearing Loss Accessibility

Sign Language

• Ranger programs: The National Park Service provides sign language interpretation for any ranger program, with at least two weeks advance request.

Assistive Listening Devices

• Visitors may borrow an electronic device with a conventional ear piece to amplify public programs.

Visitor Center

• Park film: The park film is open-captioned.

Blindness / Low Vision Accessibility

Visitor Center

• Park information: The official park brochure is available in Braille at the Visitor Center desk.
• Park film: The park film is narrated and has natural sounds.

Cognitive Disabilities

Visitor Center

• Park film: The park film is narrated and has natural sounds.

Ranger Programs

• Tactile objects: Ranger programs strive to engage multiple senses and learning styles and can include audio components and/or tactile objects.

Service Animals

The 2010 revision to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a service animal as, "an animal that has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability."

Animals that are not trained to perform tasks that mitigate the effects of a disability, including animals that are used to provide comfort or emotional support (e.g. therapy animals), are considered pets and not service animals.