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vacation ideas for someone with limited mobility?

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nageov3t

Lifer
so, my best friend and I go on vacation together every year... I'm trying to plan out our vacation for this year, but I've got a special consideration to make -- my friend was in an accident a couple months ago and since the accident, her mobility is a little limited. she's not in a wheel chair or anything, but she can walk for an hour tops before she's physically exhausted.

our last trip together was to Montreal last summer and it involved pretty much non-stop walking everywhere, so now I'm trying to think of especially car-friendly cities.

my preferences:

-somewhere that's cooler than NJ in the summer
-enough to see/do to last a week
-not a cruise
-under $1000/person

any suggestions?
 
Utah national park circle. Almost all the parks have a bunch of viewpoints that require short easy walks.

Oh, not in the summer hah, but could you do it in the fall?
 
State park for a camping / fishing?

Depending on the parks in your area, there could be a lot to do. Anywhere from renting a canoe for a couple of hours to fishing.
 
Gatlinburg, TN (would still be hot)
Seattle (was there last summer for a wedding, TONS of stuff to do, even got to see killer whales)
 
A minimal walking requirement bombs about everything I'd think of off the top of the head. Only thing that comes to mind would maybe be something like an upper midwest camping adventure, stopping at yellowstone, the black hills and such for a couple days each as you could do a decent amount of site seeing by vehicle then hang around camp for the evenings.
 
they have a decent transit system. Use that for a few days and rent a car for a few for trips out to see the mountains, the San Juans, etc.
 
Gatlinburg seconded. You can get to anywhere in the SMNP in a car just about. (that is minus the crazy hiking trails everywhere, but the main attractions and features in the park are all ADA and minimal walking.) Gatlinburg is a massive car-friendly strip with just about everything under the sun right there with its own parking lot.
 
loki8481 said:
Seattle was one place we were thinking of even before the accident... what's the city like as far as having to walk everywhere, though?
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it relatively hilly. it can be steep in places. The nice thing is that during the week there's a downtown free zone on the busses.
 
Yellowstone isn't a bad idea. There's a road built directly to everything worth seeing in that park. The Tetons have great views from the road as well.
 
Go where you want to, and rent a wheelchair. You can push your friend, and in exchange, she can hold the packages.
 
Honestly, pretty much any city in the US. Most of our major cities were built/expanded so as to make it easy to access most things directly by car.
 
lxskllr said:
Go where you want to, and rent a wheelchair. You can push your friend, and in exchange, she can hold the packages.
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If she'd be ok with this, I think the idea is brilliant. Take a bike lock with. Or use her "disability" to get preferential treatment at just about every establishment you go into!
 
MovingTarget said:
Honestly, pretty much any city in the US. Most of our major cities were built/expanded so as to make it easy to access most things directly by car.
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much as I joke about taking her to Disney World and getting to skip all the lines, I don't think she'd go for it.

my latest idea, which I'm going to run past her, is a road trip to Detroit :awe:

we could do a 1-way car rental, drive from NJ -> Cleveland, stay a day or two there, drive from Cleveland -> Detroit, stay a day or two, drive from Detroit -> Grand Rapids (because I want to visit the Gerald Ford museum) and then fly back to NJ.
 
loki8481 said:
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we could do a 1-way car rental, drive from NJ -> Cleveland, stay a day or two there, drive from Cleveland -> Detroit, stay a day or two, drive from Detroit -> Grand Rapids (because I want to visit the Gerald Ford museum) and then fly back to NJ.
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A vacation from NJ to Cleveland and Detroit......
 
K1052 said:
A vacation from NJ to Cleveland and Detroit......
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I'm a bit indifferent towards Cleveland, but it seems like a night there would break up the drive and we can see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or something.

NJ -> State College (stop for lunch, show my best friend where I went to college) = 3 hours
State College -> Cleveland = 4 hours
Cleveland -> Canton (William McKinley Presidential Museum) -> Detroit = 4 hours
Detroit -> Grand Rapids = 3 hours
 
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