Olympic Peninsula & SW Washington

There are actually two short wheelchair accessible trails in Cape Disappointment State Park outside of Long Beach in Southwestern Washington. The first is the spectacular walk out to the North Head Lighthouse. The picture at the right shows the amazing view that Lucas had of the beach and Columbia...

Long Beach is a town in Southwestern Washington, about 3.5 hours from Seattle and near the estuary of the Columbia River. The first time we stayed there in 2017 we stuck mostly to the boardwalk in town along the beach. This time we made our way out to Cape...

On the search for a new trail this fall we found our way to the town of Orting about a hour south of Seattle. The Foothills Trail is actually quite long and much of it is urban; but this section going south from the town of Orting is very...

We love taking Washington state ferries around the Puget Sound (great accessibility!) and the one to Bainbridge is a favorite. But until recently we hadn’t found many trails to explore on the island. Gazzam Lake came up in a google search and we figured we’d give it a shot....

We discovered this trail recently through the Washington Trails Association website which has a great filter showing wheelchair accessible trails. This one must have been added recently since we hadn’t heard about it before… probably because the wheelchair friendly portion of the trail was just completed in the fall...

Marymere Falls is a spectacular trail in the Olympic National Park on the edge of Lake Crescent. The trail starts at the Storm King Ranger Station, winding down near the lake and then passing under the roadway via a narrow tunnel (one drawback is that the first half of...

The first time we visited this beautiful wildlife refuge on our way to Olympia (its about 10 miles from downtown Olympia) on  a chilly December day. We didn’t have much time so we just did the short Twin Barnes Loop trail which starts from the visitors center. Update (September,...

We did this trail during a road trip back in 2018. At the time Lucas wrote on his blog “We just went on a cool hike in the rainforest. We saw lots of moss hanging down from the trees. It was the coolest hike ever.” That kind of sums...

The first time we rolled this trail with Lucas was in 2013 in the spring. We joined up with a bird watching group and went very slowly along the first 1/4 mile of the trail, marveling at the abundance and variety of birds under the cover of trees. Returning...

Some years ago we were driving back from Portland to Seattle after spending Christmas with family. At that time a 3 or 4 hour drive was tough for Lucas in his wheelchair so we looked for a place to stop and spend the night half way… and that’s how...