Making Waves: These 3 New England Handicap-Accessible Beaches Create Memorable Beach Days for All

The beach is a wonderful place and so many people are able to enjoy walking the beaches, collecting shells, feeling the waves, and the breeze across their cheeks.

Did you ever wonder how visitors with mobility impairments maneuver the beach?

Many beaches make an effort to create that experience for those who have special mobility needs.

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire is one our largest local beaches and is bustling with visitors all spring, summer, and fall.

According to the newhampshirebulletin.com, the "Hampton Beach patrol office by the Seashell Stage area provides beach wheelchairs for public use, and accessible beach mats are installed seasonally at four locations. There is also a ramp and viewing platform at 18th Street near the North Beach area, and a concrete walkway located at South Beach."

With a little planning you can make someone's day by bringing them to the beach.

Another gorgeous and large beach ,Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Long Point on Martha's Vineyard are part of The Trustees.  Each location has a waterproof beach wheelchair with giant wheels to get through the sand.  It's available for those mobility impaired or challenged, and transportation is available from the parking lot as well.

TheTrustees.org is a non-profit created to protect those special places in Massachusetts that people can enjoy.  There are wheel-chair accessible trails at some of the sites, making nature available to all abilities.

If you do a little digging you will find many beaches have some type of accessibility, because the beauty of the beach is something everyone should be able to enjoy.