A program meant to provide accessible nature trails to people with disabilities has expanded its roadmap with help from a Saskatchewan Paralympic champion.
The Trans Canada Trail introduced its Accessibility Mapping Program in 2021 alongside AccessNow, an app which shares accessibility information about parks, trails and buildings. Trail users and mappers send in information about the trails and people can gauge how accessible they are for their own use.
Moose Jaw’s Lisa Franks, an accomplished Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and wheelchair racer, mapped the Saskatchewan additions of the 2022 expansion.
She said she loved the outdoors as a child but when
