Accessibility

Thomas Stone House

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The National Park Service is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have equal opportunity to benefit from our facilities, programs, services, and activities whether they are indoors or outdoors. Discover accessible features in parks and learn more about what we do to provide accessibility across the National Park System.

Park Brochure

The park's official brochure is available at the park visitor center in Braille. Contact us for a paper copy.

 

Physical / Mobility Accessibility

 

Getting Around

A golf-cart shuttle from the Visitor Center to the Thomas Stone House can be arranged upon advance request. 

 

Visitor Center/Thomas Stone House

• Entrance into the Visitor Center is through a mobility accessible door.
• An inside water fountain and water filling station are mobility accessible.
• In the Thomas Stone House, between the West-Hyphen and the West Bedroom is a person lift that is operated by staff only. This is not a wheelchair lift.

 

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Deaf / Hearing Loss Accessibility

Sign Language

• The National Park Service provides sign language interpretation for any ranger program, with at least two weeks advance request.

Assistive Listening Devices

• Visitors may borrow an electronic device with a conventional ear piece to amplify public programs.

Visitor Center

• The park film is open-captioned.
• The park film is narrated and has natural sounds.

 

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Blindness / Low Vision Accessibility

Visitor Center

• The official park brochure is available in Braille at the Visitor Center desk and at the Thomas Stone House.
• The park film is narrated and has natural sounds.

Ranger Programs

• Ranger programs strive to engage multiple senses and learning styles and can include audio components and/or tactile objects.

 

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Cognitive Disabilities

Visitor Center

• The park film is narrated.
• The Museum and exhibit area has benches for a quiet area.

Ranger Programs

• Ranger programs strive to engage multiple senses and learning styles and can include audio components and/or tactile objects.

 

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Service Animals

The 2010 revision to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a service animal as, "an animal 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."

Animals that are not trained to perform tasks that mitigate the effects of a disability, including animals that are used to provide comfort or emotional support (e.g. therapy animals), are considered pets, not service animals.