NatureTrack Demonstrates How Wheelchair Users Can Get Back to Nature with Freedom Trax – Giving All Access on the Beach a New Look

On the second Sunday of every month, NatureTrack, whose mission is to connect kids to nature is collaborating with Explore Ecology for its monthly Beach Clean Up at Arroyo Burro (Hendry’s Beach). Expanding its mission from connecting kids to nature to include people in wheelchairs and all at no cost courtesy of NatureTrack, is such a gift to our county.  

From 10 AM to Noon, NatureTrack will have six Freedom Trax devices available for wheelchair users to use on a first-come, first-served basis. This is an apparatus that quickly and easily converts a manual wheelchair into a battery-powered, all-terrain vehicle allowing those users to traverse beach sand and trails independently.

There is no cost to use the Freedom Trax, courtesy of NatureTrack, which will also have two manual wheelchairs available for transfer should your wheelchair not fit on the device. We would appreciate an RSVP no later than Friday, January 7.  

Explore Ecology will be hosting their monthly beach cleanup at the same time! Now, wheelchair users can help keep our beaches beautiful!  Contact and reserve one of the devices if you’d like to be part of the beach clean-up. 

411:

1/9/21 from 10 – noon at Arroyo Burro (Hendry’s Beach) at 2981 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.  Call (805) 884-0459 or e-mail Lydia@exploreecology.org 

Upcoming Dates: 
February 13
March 13
April 10
May 8
June 12
July 10
August 14
Sept. 11

For more info on NatureTrack Foundation and the important work it does connecting people to nature call (805) 886-2047 or e-mail sue@naturetrack.org 

Links:

NatureTrack: https://naturetrack.org 
ExploreEcology: https://exploreecology.org/watershed-resource-center/