PINE, Colo. — Dozens of footprints on a dirt trail is one of the most typical Colorado sights on a sunny, summer morning. At Staunton State Park, those footprints are mixed with markings that look like a small vehicle took on the trail.
“It's a tank.”
“It’s the Cadillac model.”
“It’s a track chair.”
These are all different ways to describe the specialized wheelchairs, which are available to rent, that make those markings. These track chairs are so popular they are booked through the summer, five years after the program first started. And it's easy to see why.
The program now owns five, newer-model track chairs, while the older models were donated to other state parks that are working to implement similar programs. Each chair at Staunton has the option to have the participant or a volunteer control the movement at different speeds, direction changes and the ability to tilt the seat for adjustments when going up or down slopes. One of the volunteers who has been with the program since the beginning sang the praises of the new chairs, often calling them the "Cadillac" of chairs.
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