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Adventure Travel

By: Janet Ambrose
Are you sick of going on vacation and just sitting at the beach all day?
How about those bus tours? Visiting your relatives?

Well, those might be great vacations for some people, but others need more from their vacations. They have the desire for ADVENTURE! That's why we have created this adventure travel resource for disabled travelers. There are several organizations/ companies around the U.S. and world that are waiting to pump up your adrenaline.

Go From HereStuck in a Traffic Jam in the cityTo HereRafting Trip on the river

Choose From These Great Adventure Travel Locations:
U.S. & Canada - Australia - England - Europe
Africa - Asia - South America - Mexico - Canada


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United States & Canada Adventure Travel

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Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures

Location

Email

Phone No.

Adventure Trips

Access Adventures

Access Adventures offers supported vacations for over 500 travelers throughout the year. Our programs are reasonably priced and include all costs for travel, lodging, food, attractions and supervision. Our service is unique in offering vacations for persons with developmental and physical disabilities who require additional assistance to enjoy a vacation.

Maryland

no
email

301 870 3226

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American West & National Parks

Access Tours

Access Tours has been offering accessible package tours of National Parks and other special areas in the West, especially for slow walkers and wheelchair users, along with those who would normally accompany them, since 1989. Able-bodied people who find our tours to their liking often join us. Singles welcome. Vehicles are wheelchair lift equipped.

Idaho

email

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800 929 4811

Alaskan Adventures & Cruises

Accessible Alaska Adventures

A.W.Y. is owned by longtime Alaskans, who travel throughout the 'Great Land' extensively. Arrange your Alaska getaway with the Alaska experts: We customized itineraries, for a fee, for travelers with special needs - seniors, families, hikers, lazy bones, and disabled travelers.

Alaska

email

800 349 6301
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Disabled Hunting and Fishing in Canada

Accessible Canadian Adventures

Accessible Canadian Adventures (A.C.A.) provides disabled sportsmen and women a safe and meticulously planned adventure to hunt or fish anywhere in Canada.

Canada

email

N/A

Non-profit for People With Multiple Sclerosis

Adventures Within, Inc.

We provide outdoor experience and confidence building challenges for individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. We offer 5 day trips in the winter for skiing and 5 day trips in the summer which includes canoeing, ropes course, river rafting, horseback riding and rock climbing and repelling.

Colorado

email

303 744 8813

Adventure Trips

Adventures Without Limits

Join Adventures Without Limits for excellence in outdoor adventure on a variety of trips and experiences. We specialize in rafting, sea kayaking, canoeing, snowshoeing, skiing, sledding, backpacking, hiking, biking, rock climbing, and fun. Clinics, day trips, and 4 day camps.

Oregon

email

503 359 2568

Adventure Travel,
Cruise & Tours

Aloha Travel

Judy Heller and her staff will their local knowledge to assist you in planning, scheduling and reserving your Hawaiian activities to enhance your adventure. She continually researches air, land and sea activity providers to recommend the most accessible activities to you. Helicopter rides with transfer lift.

Hawaii

email

800 303 3750
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Scuba Diving

Aqua Action
Dive Center

Carl Moore, the owner of Aqua Action Dive Center, is the only Instructor on St. Thomas certified by the Handicapped Scuba Association. Carl was certified by the H.S.A. in 1995 and has been active training divers with disabilities ever since.

Virgin Islands

email

888 775 6285

Fishing Charters

Amelia Anchors Away Charters

If you, or someone you know is physically challenged, don't let it stop you from enjoying a day fishing on the sea. Ye Ole Pirate is equipped with rams to handle wheel chairs. We are sensitive to any special needs and will provide assistance to make your experience and exciting one.

Florida

email

904 277 2086

Horseback Riding Tours

Back Country Discovery

Wilderness Horsepacking for the disabled. Back Country Discovery (BCD) is a non-profit, educational, wilderness guiding organization for adults with disabilities. BCD is dedicated to improving the quality of life for adults with disabilities through wilderness education and recreation activities. Camping and horseback adventures at 4 different ranches.

Colorado

email

970 568 3343
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Outdoor Adventure Experiences
in Oregon

Big Bear Countree

Big Bear Countree was started by Darrel Von who became paralyzed from the chest down as a result of a mountain motorcycle race at age 21. He now offers outdoor adventures to others who share the same passion for the outdoors. Including four track, Argo, trackster, rafts, wave runners, boat, bike, flying, a.t.v. tours, shooting, marksmanship, and much more. His website is also a offers a small community for "disabled outdoorsman" to stay in contact with each other.

Oregon

email

503 852 7926

Fishing, Archery, and Outdoor Trips

Big Bear Countree

Paralyzed or Disabled? But still love adventurous activities in the great outdoors, like hunting, fishing, camping and shooting? Want to leave the wheelchair or crutches behind? Come to Oregon and check out my atv's, adaptive equipment and see what works best for you.

Or.

darrell@bigbearcountree.com

503 852 7926

Sailing Tours
in San Diego

Challenged America

Disabled Sailing, A free therapeutic-recreational rehabilitation sailing program for active youth and adults with disabilities, disabled veterans, their family, friends, and professionals in recreational, occupational and therapeutic rehabilitation and sports.

California

no email

619 523 9318
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Adventure Travel & Adaptive Skiing

Colorado
Discover Ability

Non-profit organization that provides outdoor recreation to people with disabilities and youth at risk. C.D.A. brings together people with disabilities, at-risk youth, their families and their friends to experience the freedom of rafting on the Colorado River, kayaking on Lake Powell, skiing at Powderhorn, and other outdoor activities.

Colorado

email

970 257 1222

Adventure Trips

Disabled Adventure Outfitters

Website is not complete as of April 1, 2005.

California

email

707 822 1101

Worldwide Travel

Eco-Adventure International, LLC

Welcome to Eco-Adventure International. We are an adventure travel company that has been providing quality small group travel experiences for many years. Australia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Peru, South America, Tanzania, Turkey, and Thailand.

Wisconsin

email

888 710 9453
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Worldwide Adventure Travel for Seniors

ElderTreks

ELDERTREKS is the world's first adventure travel company designed exclusively for people 50 and over. With 19 years of experience, we offer active, off-the-beaten-path, small-group adventures by both land and sea in over 60 countries. Our journeys focus on adventure, culture and nature.

Canada

email

800 741 7956

Fishing
Trips & Events

Fishing has no boundaries, inc.

Opening up the great outdoors for all people with disabilities through the world of fishing. Day trips and 2-3 day camping trips in various cities around the country.

Wisconsin

email

800 243 3462

Flight training and glider rides

Freedom's Wings International

Freedom's Wings International is a non-profit organization run by and for people with physical disabilities. We provide the opportunity for those who are physically challenged to fly in specially adapted sailplanes, either as a passenger or as a member of the flight training program.

New Jersey

email

732 432 8342
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Scuba Diving

H.S.A. International

Founded in 1981, The Handicapped Scuba Association, a non-profit organization, has dedicated itself to improving the physical and social well being of people with disabilities through the exhilarating sport of scuba diving and in doing so has become the worldwide authority in the field. Find instructors worldwide or become an instructor.

California

email

949 498 4540

Outdoor Recreation

handiCAPABLE Guide Service, Inc

Dedicated to educating and rehabilitating through recreation. We provide the developmentally delayed and physically challenged youth and adults in Kentucky and surrounding states the opportunity to experience the thrills and challenges of boating, fishing, and other forms of outdoor recreation.

Kentucky

email

270 362 0970
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Yachting Vacation

In the Wild Adventures

Finally a yachting vacation that's handicapped accessible. You may have thought it impossible, but here it is. Stardust, a 70 foot luxury motor yacht has an interior wheelchair lift, hydraulic lifting aft platform and is wheelchair accessible throughout. The yacht was owned by a handicapped individual who made sure that he could move freely and comfortably throughout, in a wheelchair, so that he could fully enjoy the yachting experience with his family.

Virgin Islands

no email

800 508 1048

Flying

International Wheelchair Aviators

Although IWA began in 1972 as just a monthly "fly to lunch" group of four paraplegic aviators from the Southern California area, it has developed into a worldwide group of disabled and able bodied (A/B) pilots interested in aviation and flying. Members have many different disabilities...

California

email

909 585 9663

Scuba Diving
in Florida

Our Ocean Dreams

Our Ocean Dreams has been involved with the HSA for a number of years and has been an avid supporter of teaching individuals with disabilities how to dive. If you are a person with a disability looking to get into SCUBA diving then please check out our website or call us.

Florida

email

727 578 3095
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American West Adventure Tours

R-Active

Reed Robinson and Reinhild Moeller are offering travel and adventure tours for the handicapped who are seeking excitement, adventure and the chance to meet people from other countries. Landsailing, whitewater rafting, handcycling, waterskiing, kayaking and camping in the outdoors are the activities which put together in one exciting tour in the Wild West

Nevada

email

775 831 8706

R.V. Park
For Disabled

Roamin' Chariots RV Park

By year's end we should be offering camping cabins and a few RV sites. The cabins will meet or exceed ADA guidelines. We are located in the beautiful Hill Country of Texas. Check out our web-site and sign our guest book! Conceived by the disabled to serve the disabled.

Texas

email

830 367 3935

Scuba Diving & Snorkeling

SeaBreeze Reef Raiders

We offer two tank/stop cruises to the barrier reef located 6 miles south of Key West. Lots of fish and coral. If you are on a cruise with Royal Caribbean, Carnival or Celebrity Cruise Lines, contact us. We provide scuba services to these lines and we can take snorkelers also. Our cruise times match the times these ships are in port in Key West.

Florida

email

305 292 7745

U.S. & Worldwide Group Tours

Search Beyond Adventures

While Search Beyond Adventures offers "regular tours" they venture to the outdoors as well. They offer sailing trips in the great lakes, horseback riding in Arizona and Arkansas, and National Park trips.

Florida

no email

800 800 9979

Adventure Trips

Shared Adventures

Shared Adventures is a Santa Cruz, California based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the outdoors into the lives of people with physical challenges and special needs.

California

email

831 459 7210
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Flying

Sky Sailing

Sky Sailing is the leader in handicapped training. We have installed special factory manufactured hand controls into the pride of our fleet, "Sailplane Magic". We have trained many para's and incomplete quads to experience the magic and the joy of soaring.

California

email

760 782 0404

Fishing Trips

Tranquil Adventures

Chartered fishing trips in Key West, Florida. Nealey, founder and operator of Tranquil Adventures and a victim of polio at age 2, considers himself able bodied, sometimes uses a wheelchair himself.

Florida

email

305 451 2102

U.S. and Worldwide Group Tours

TRIPS Inc.

Trips Inc. Special Adventures provides travel outings to adults of various abilities in a safe, respectful and fun atmosphere. Their Adventure Trips include jeep tours and dude ranches in Arizona, camping in Oregon, and snorkeling in Hawaii and Mexico.

Oregon

email

800 686 1013
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U.S. and Worldwide Outdoor Adventure Trips

Wilderness Inquiry

Sharing outdoor adventure with everyone is our mission – and our passion. WI offers a wide variety of canoe, sea kayak, dogsled, raft, horse pack and hiking trips throughout North America and the World.

Minn.

email

800 728 0719

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Worldwide Adventure Travel Companies & Destinations

Australia and New Zealand Adventure Travel

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Description of Company and Adventures

Location

Email

Phone No.

New Zealand Accessible Kiwi Tours New Zealand LTD Custom tours & adventure travel to the beautiful country of New Zealand. Completely custom adventure trips for groups, families, or individuals. Bungee Jumping, whale watching, volcano touring, gold panning, jet boating, "underwater world", and scenic flights. New Zealand email 64 7 315 6988
Scuba Diving DIVErsion Claudia Lutrop of DIVErsion in Cairns offers the possibility to dive the Great Barrier Reef for disabled divers. She is trained as Handicapped Diving Instructor by the International Association for Handicapped Divers (I.A.H.D.). Her main experience is as diving partner with paraplegics, amputees, diabetics and blind divers.. Australia email 61 740390200

Hang Gliding &
Paragliding

FlyAbility

Hang gliding & paragliding opportunities for people with disabilities. Tandem flights - pilot scholarships - specialist equipment, disability awareness

United Kingdom

email

44 (0)17687
72254

Australia & New Zealand Neverland Adventures At Neverland Adventures we don’t do activities for disabled people, we do activities with disabled people. We know that what we see and do makes the adventure, and our activities are nothing short of “first class”. Ride a cable car over the rainforest of far North Queensland, take a helicopter flight over “The Great Barrier Reef” then snorkel within it’s magical wonders. Hunt for bargains in some of the best shopping areas and markets on offer. Mingle with, and cuddle, unique wildlife- and much, much, more. California email 800 717 8226
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Australia Pipeline Holidays Pipeline Holidays is a Queensland based holiday company dedicated to providing fully escorted assisted care group holidays for people with an intellectual disability. Some of their adventure tours include - A visit to Steve Irwins Australian Zoo, "ghost tours", "sky rail", rainforest tours, medieval castles, whale watching, and more. Australia email 180 024 3065 ?
Australia We Care Tours and Travel Not as adventurous as others. However, they do offer a New Zealand tour that highlights many sights from the movie Lord of the Rings. Australia email 612 96706668

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United Kingdom and European Adventure Travel

Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures Offered

Location

Email

Phone No.

Yacht Trips in Greece

DR Yachting

DR Yachting would like to introduce you to the wonders of sailing around the Greek islands in your very own-skippered yacht. We have worked hard in preparing to host guests with disabilities from all over the world. Our goal is to make this sailing holiday your most enjoyable and memorable experience of your life. All-inclusive sailing holidays.

Greece

email

30 210 9850 168 /9

Sailing Tours in the U.K.

Jubilee Sailing Trust

The J.S.T. is a UK based charity that aims to promote the integration of able-bodied and physically disabled people through adventure tall ship sailing holidays. The J.S.T. welcomes people from all over the world onto its two specially designed tall ships the LORD NELSON and TENACIOUS.

England

email

44 870 445781

Hiking with
special wheelchair

Handi Cap Evasion

Handi Cap Evasion is a French non-profit association, founded in 1988 in the Hautes-Alpes (France). Its vocation is to allow physically handicapped and able-bodied people to do hiking together in the mountains in France and abroad. This is possible thanks to a special wheelchair called the "Joëlette."

France

email

N/A
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Rally Car Driving

Para Rallying

We offer a unique opportunity for the disabled driver to get behind the wheel of a Rally Car and drive on both a loose gravel and a tarmac special stage against the clock driving a fully adapted car instructed by a professional Rally Driver.

England

email

44 7946262467

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Africa Adventure Travel

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Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures Offered

Location

Email

Phone No.

African Safaris & Adventure Travel

Able Travel

Accessible African safaris and adventure travel advice for wheelchair users and physically disabled people.

Belgium

email

0032 1629 3575

African Safaris
& Tours

Access Africa

We offer fully adapted lodging and travel excursions in South Africa for the adventurous disabled/wheelchair user including the chance to see the wilds of Africa in comfort.

England, London

email

020 885 13065

African Safaris

Compi Tours

Specializing in taking physically disabled persons, especially wheelchair users, on a tour through parts of South Africa to experience the "Big 5" animals.

South Africa

email

2712 345 4444

Disabled
Scuba Diving

Camel Dive

Diving for disabled people in Sharm El Sheikh - Red Sea, Egypt. Our dive staff and boat crews have a good understanding of the special needs of wheelchair users and people with other disabilities. They will help you plan your daily diving or course, while taking into consideration the individual requirements of each person.

Egypt

email

20 69 3600700

Egypt

Egypt for All

We are a highly challenging team of professional tourism experts, working in tourism in Egypt since 1988. Egypt Nile Cruises at sunset, see the "Three Great Pyramids", Sphinx, and visit accessible ancient tombs.

Egypt

email

20 12 3961991

Egypt

EnjoyTours.org

We organize holidays for wheelchair, dialysis, oxygen dependant, visually impaired & hard hearing travelers.

Egypt, Cairo

email

002 010 16 11 553

Egypt

Enjoy Tour Services

Wheelchair accessible hotels and Nile cruises in Egypt major destinations.

Egypt, Cairo

email

002 010 666 14 24

African Safaris

Endeavour Safaris

Endeavour Safaris would like to welcome you to see and feel Africa in ways that have rarely been experienced by wheel-chair reliant people before. The company is family-owned and our vision was to provide a way for physically challenged people to enjoy a real African Safari by catering to their special needs 1st.

South Africa

email

27 21 5566114

African  Safaris

Epic Enabled

Epic Enabled offers family friendly & wheelchair accessible camping safari holidays to the disabled traveller in the Kruger National Park, Garden Route and day tours in Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa. Everybody is welcome, individuals, friends, families & groups. Touch a cheetah, hear the animal calls, taste traditional foods, see the famous African sunsets, have fun…

South Africa

email

270217829575

African Tours

Flamingo Tours & Disabled Adventure

Our tours are personalized, tailored around client’s specific needs, interests, budget and Cape Town’s uniqueness. Game viewing and whale watching. Great for people who don't want an all out safari like some of the other companies offer. Sign language available.

South Africa

email

27 0215574496
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African Tours
and Safaris

Go-Africa Safaris & Travel

We have the specially trained staff, facilities and local knowledge to ensure that you can plan a safari itinerary specially designed to meet the individual needs of yourself or your group.

Africa

email

254 40 320 2938

African Safari

Siyabona Africa Travel (Pty) Ltd.

8 day Kruger Park tour for disabled travelers. Track Africa’s Big Five on exciting morning and evening game drives in Kruger National Park, encounter up close to Lion and baby elephant, touch a wild cheetah at a Private Game Reserve, have dinner around a blazing fire. Take pleasure in traditional food and exhilarating dancing at Nyani Tribal Village, overlook the stunning Blyde River Canyon, visit the old mining town Pilgrim’s Rest and the beautiful highland village Dullstroom..and more!

South Africa

email

27 214241037

African Tours
and Safaris

Rolling SA

Rolling SA offers the disabled traveler the opportunity to experience the natural beauty of South Africa. 9 day African Safari or 4 day adventure tour that includes bungee jumping, river tubing, and treetop canopy tour.

South Africa

email

none available

African Safaris

Southern Cross Safaris

We at Southern Cross Safaris pride ourselves on giving our guests “Special Safaris For Special People”, tailor made safari's to suit everyone's needs. Southern Cross Safaris have always been a leader in our field and strive daily to improve our services, which are second to none.

Africa

email

254 41 475074/5/6
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African Tours
and Safaris

Titch Tours

Titch Tours custom designs each itinerary according to the traveler's disabilities, their capabilities, time constraints and budget. Each of the hotels we use has a few wheelchair friendly rooms. South Africa Tour.

South Africa

email

27 21 6865501

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Asia Adventure Travel

Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures Offered

Location

Email

Phone No.

Thailand

Baan Khun Daeng

"Baan Khun Daeng" can arrange 'adventures' for you ranging from a visit to a temple, a ride on an elephant, a healing or a sensual massage, to a day in a Lahu hill-tribe village. Also tours to - snake farm & temple tours

Thailand

email

006653242874

Bali, Indonesia

Rollover Bali

Welcome to "Roll over Bali". Individually designed wheelchair suitable tours and holiday of Bali. NO GROUP TOURS. We offer packages and day tours offering the best of Bali also arrange airport transfers for smooth arrivals and departures. Snorkeling or diving, dolphin watching, and more

Bali, Indonesia

email

62 361733805

Nepal

Blue Mountain
Travels & Tours

For the disable person we can make trip to them according to their desire. We can make city, culture tour, wild life safari tour. We can make a Mt. Flight tour for an hour to see Mt. Everest. They do not specialize in disabled travelers but are willing to work with you. Please contact them for details

Kathmandu,
Nepal

email

977 1217 0837

South America Adventure Travel

Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures Offered

Location

Email

Phone No.

Chile & Argentina

Amapi Expeditions

Incoming Tour operator that organizes accessible a-la-carte tours to Chile and Argentina for the wheelchair traveler and the slow walker.

Chile

email

+5699179365

Costa Rica

Los Trogones Travel Agency

We offer all kind of tours in Costa Rica for disability people: National Parks, Museums, beaches, Aerial Trams, Volcanoes, and any other service the tourist may need.

Costa Rica

email
or
email

506 256 0475
or
506 256 9671

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Canada Adventure Travel

Specialty

Name

Description of Company and Adventures Offered

Location

Email

Phone No.

Worldwide Adventure
Travel for Seniors

ElderTreks

ELDERTREKS is the world's first adventure travel company designed exclusively for people 50 and over. With 19 years of experience, we offer active, off-the-beaten-path, small-group adventures by both land and sea in over 60 countries. Our journeys focus on adventure, culture and nature.

Canada

email

8007417956

Water Tours

Starline
Water Tours

Located in British Columbia they offer whale watching, fishing charters, kayak delivery, eco-tours, harbor tours, and cultural tours. Accessibility may be limited, please contact them for details depending on your needs.

British Columbia

email

8887552233

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