The track chairs are essentially battery-powered wheelchairs without wheels.
Instead, they are equipped with tracks much like an army tank or snowmobile.
This allows the chair to travel over uneven ground blanketed in sticks and stones.
Photo:MN Department of Natural Resources
The chairs are battery-powered and controllable by toggles.
There is also a wheelchair specifically made for sand available at McCarthy Beach State Park.
To reserve a chair, there is no payment.
Blue Mounds State Park, one of the parks now offering all-terrain track chairs. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons,GNU Free Documentation License)
Visitors must simplycall aheadto the specific park to request it.
They also must have astate park vehicle pass.
Those who qualify for disability parking can purchase the pass for only $12.
When one arrives, there is no need to provide any documentation, one must simply sign a waiver.
With this adaptive equipment available, becoming one with nature will be more accessible to all.
Blue Mounds State Park, one of the parks now offering all-terrain track chairs.
