The Guzzler Rifle
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is committed to providing superior service to all park visitors. The visitor center complex includes a museum, a first-floor auditorium showing the park's orientation film, a sales area, and restrooms. All are accessible to visitors who are mobility impaired. The park orientation film is open captioned. Written material is provided in the museum
exhibits. New wayside exhibits on Gap Restoration communicate visually and rely heavily on graphics to interpret park resources. Typography for these new exhibits is also legible and readable. Exhibit colors are selected to reduce eyestrain and glare.

A relief map is provided at the park visitor center so all visitors can feel and understand the topography of the area. During many ranger-guided programs, rangers are dressed in period clothing from the 1700s and 1800s. Ranger also provide opportunities for visitors to dress in period clothing.

The design of the visitor center restrooms allows for a lateral transfer. Please note that that transfer in the men's restroom is from left to right, while that in the women's restroom is from right to left.

Designated parking allows for easy access to the visitor center. 

At an elevation of 2,440 feet, the Pinnacle Overlook is perhaps the most visited area in the park. A level ¼-mile paved trail provides access to this overlook, from which visitors have a spectacular view into Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Designated parking allows easy access to the trailhead. Restrooms at the Pinnacle Overlook do not currently allow for wheelchair use.

Accessible drive-in campsites are available at the park's Wilderness Road Campground. Surfaces within designated sites have been hardened, the height of the fire grates has been increased, and picnic tables allow for wheelchair use. Centrally located restrooms and showers provide for wheelchair use. A short paved trail guides visitors to the campground's amphitheater, where park rangers present programs on the cultural and natural history of the park.

 
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