Canaveral National Seashore, beach

[mariness]

The Canaveral National Seashore has a lovely parking lot, with two nicely accessible disabled parking spaces, a sorta friendly disabled bathroom (aside from the small problem that no one in a wheelchair can possibly reach the lock, apparently on the basis that if the lock was at wheelchair level kids could lock themselves in), and a nice, if rather steep (I needed assistance) ramp, helpfully labelled with a bright blue wheelchair sign, leading up to the top of the sand dunes and a lovely view of the ocean and the rocket launching pads --

-- and stairs leading down to the beach, with no ramp, and no other access to the beach and the ocean.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I just checked their website, and yes, we were at one of the three ADA accessible ramps to the beach (parking Area 1A), although I'm not entirely sure how stairs to the beach fits into ADA accessibility. We may check out parking areas 3 & 5 on a future visit to see if things are different there.

Comments

[mathsnerd]

Didn't you get the memo? Disabled persons have no right going down to the beach and the ocean! You might get stuck in the wet sand! You might get wet! You might get eaten by a jellyfish!