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Brochure 3: Overview > Accessibility
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OVERVIEW: Accessibility
For the most current and complete information about programs and services for people with disabilities at Acadia, please visit our accessibility webpage.
Accessible site descriptions, written for the perspective of people with disabilities, are offered for a growing number of popular park destinations, including:
- Hulls Cove Visitor Center
- Sand Beach
- Ocean Path
- Thunder Hole
- Fabbri Picnic Area and Memorial
The park offers two audio description-based tours:
- Audio Description Tour of Acadia Waysides. Most of Acadia's interpretive waysides and orientation panels are presented by geographic area. Recorded audio descriptions and transcripts are provided for each wayside.
- Audio Description Tour of Acadia Artwork. More than a dozen visual art pieces from the Artist-in-Residence program currently are displayed in public spaces in Acadia. To make the gallery experience more inclusive for people who have visual impairments, a recorded audio description and transcript are offered at the top of each artwork's entry in the program's online catalog. In this tour, each displayed artwork is presented in sequence along with directions to navigate the physical space.
Some important general information about accessibility in Acadia includes:
- Fare-free Island Explorer buses are accessible for wheelchair users, but not Bicycle Express vans. People with disabilities may call 2 0 7 6 6 7 5 7 9 7 to request a pickup at a location up to three-quarters of a mile off a regular bus route.
- If you have a program accommodation request for any scheduled event or activity at Acadia, such as sign language interpretation, live audio description, or assistive listening, please contact us at least 10 days in advance at 2 0 7 2 8 8 3 3 3 8 or by email at acadia_information@nps.gov. All of Acadia's scheduled public events and ranger walks, talks, and campground programs are listed on an online event calendar.
- Braille translations of both the park's Unigrid brochure and its "Essential Acadia" messages are available at these locations:
- Hulls Cove Visitor Center information desk; Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce winter information center; Sieur de Monts Nature Center; Rockefeller Welcome Center at Schoodic Institute; Jordan Pond House information desk; and Thompson Island information desk.
Service animals are allowed in all park facilities and on all park trails unless closed by order of the superintendent. National Park Service policy defines a service animal as a dog 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. The tasks performed by the animal must be directly related to the person’s disability. Some park trails are very steep and require the use of iron rung ladders. These trails should be avoided when hiking with service animals:
- Precipice, Beehive, Ladder Trail to Dorr Mountain, Cadillac Mountain West Face from Bubble Pond, Beech Cliff from Echo Lake, and Perpendicular Trail on Mansell Mountain.
US citizens or permanent residents who are permanently disabled may be eligible for the Interagency Access Pass. This free, lifetime admission pass is valid at National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, and Bureau of Reclamation sites.
Description
Computer-generated voice recording from an audio described version of the souvenir park brochure for Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. (2024 edition)
Date Created
03/02/2024
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