Rochester Accessible Adventures is dedicated to ensuring people with disabilities have equitable access to health through recreation, sports & tourism.
Our Inclusion Partnerships transform businesses to include people with disabilities! Rochester Accessible Adventures is committed to partnering with the community to create inclusive recreation and sports opportunities for individuals with disabilities and their families and friends. We transform recreation businesses to include people with disabilities whenever their doors are open!
09/26/2025
Make sure you and your family sign up for a FALL COLOR leaf tour on Riverie (no-step entry) and Sam Patch with our Partner, Corn Hill Navigation! Check out new accessibility enhancements for their tours on their FAQ page!
Experience the vibrant colors of fall from the water with a cruise aboard Sam Patch or Riverie. Offered throughout October, these trips highlight the stunning scenery and peaceful beauty of the canal in autumn.
🎟️ Book now: cornhillnav.org
09/26/2025
Great to read about these accessibility enhancements with Amazon Kindle - check it out!
Amazon is prioritizing new accessibility features for vision disorders.
09/26/2025
One week away from a night of celebration!
Make sure to RSVP today as we reach the final countdown!
We are looking forward to wonderful food and fabulous conversations as we look back across our first 10 years, and look forward to helping make inclusion happen across Monroe County, the Greater Rochester and FLX regions, and across New York State!
Many thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, Board Safe for your continued support of RAA's mission, and for your commitment to creating greater access to recreation opportunities for people with disabilities!
Our huge thanks to all of our Sponsors:
ChangeMaker: Canandaigua National Bank
Connection Champion: Heating & Air Conditioning
Friends of Inclusion: GPI / Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. and Visit Rochester
You help !
09/25/2025
It's been a busy, exciting week as RAA's staff have participated in the World Canals Conference in Buffalo, with a hosted field trip in Fairport! We will be sharing some highlights from the week, like this one from our friends at Hudson Crossing Park, Schuylerville, NY - one of the Accessibility Education Program's first cohort members.
Our Executive Director, Kate Morse, and everyone’s favorite travel buddy, Henry, joined the Erie Canal Boat Company at the World Canals Conference in Buffalo for an incredible demonstration with Rochester Accessible Adventures (RAA). Adaptive launches, kayaks, and bikes were showcased, showing how waterways and trails can be opened to paddlers and riders of all abilities.
We’re proud to be part of this global conversation on inclusion, accessibility, and the future of canals.
Image: Kate is pictured holding Henry (an adorable stuffed mule wearing a red plaid bowtie) in front of a banner for Rochester Accessible Adventures. On the banner, a young girl is happily playing basketball.
09/25/2025
Huge thanks to our Presenting Anniversary Sponsor, Board Safe! We greatly appreciate your ongoing support of RAA's mission -- and LOVE how your adaptive kayak launches are being installed across the waterways of New York & beyond!
We can't wait for October 3rd to celebrate the impact RAA has had over our first 10 years!
String lights glowing warmly above a thank you message for inclusion efforts with BoardSafe as presenting sponsor.
09/22/2025
There is nothing like the JOY we see on people's faces when they learn that there ARE businesses that expect them to be participating in adventures like kayaking, cycling, fishing, birding, fencing, nature exploration, visiting a library, enrolling in a class at a local community center, or a boat ride on the Erie Canal!
HUGE thanks to our Connection Champion Sponsor, Mida Heating and Air Conditioning, for our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration on October 3rd! YOU are making happen and directly connecting people living with disabilities and medical conditions to a LIFETIME of accessible, inclusive recreation!
Glowing string lights over a thank you message recognizing a Connection Champion Sponsor, MIDA Heating & Air Conditioning, celebrating 50 years.
09/22/2025
So cool to see so many of our Partners filling up this Perceptive Travel list of great things to do along the historic 200 year old ! The Accessibility Education Program is transforming Erie Canalway communities! New York Power Authority NYS Canal Corporation
The Erie Canal celebrates its bicentennial in 2025, but the historic waterway in New York State is well worth visiting even in a non-anniversary year.
09/21/2025
Anyone tried this transfer tool? Looks like it could be a perfect match for many! Car Home Depot
09/21/2025
What a fantastic gathering in this week for the World Canals Conference! Fabulous to see another of our Partners through the Accessibility Education Program represented on this international platform! Way to go, New York State! Way to go, Erie Canal Museum!
NYS Canal Corporation New York Power Authority
09/21/2025
Birding is so beneficial! Check out this article about its beenfits, and if you haven't tried it, or if you are looking for a social birding community, check out our partners, Genesee Valley Audubon Society and Montezuma Audubon Center, as they create greater access for more people!
After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds. This article originally appeared in the Sept. 2025 issue of Birding. The ABA recognizes the immense importance of birding to wellness and healthy living, and is pleased to offer this article online as a free service to the entire birding community.
Chin-controlled Quadrix Access e 3! Game-changer for access to the outdoors!
Lifelong mountain biker Chantelle Grafton was able to return to trail riding in 2022 after her C1-3 spinal cord injury in 2019 thanks to adding a chin-control to the Quadrix Axcess e3 adaptive mountain bike. She and her husband are now working on bringing an adaptive mountain bike to the Prince George, British Columbia-area ♿🚵
See her story recently profiled in the mini-documentary: "Still Rider" (by Freehub Magazine):
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Our Community Health Inclusion (CHI) initiatives spread the power and joy of inclusive recreation throughout communities. RAA uses a three-pronged approach to training recreation businesses to operate inclusively whenever their doors are open!! With this new model of true inclusion, it means families and friends can jump in and participate in REAL TIME -- that is, when they want to, with people they want to participate with, and doing things they want to be doing -- ALL WHILE KNOWING their needs will be met!
Our CHI partners include:
Erie Canal Boat Company in Fairport NY and Lockport, NY-- kayak and cycle rentals
Pickled Power -- Rochester NY -- pickleball instruction by Bob Stokes
Victor Parks and Recreation -- Victor NY -- a dynamic community recreation department
Healthy Highway -- a whole-life approach to sustainable wellness by Wendy Cooper
Genesee Valley Park Sports Complex -- training staff to provide inclusive programming
School 29 - Creating an Inclusion Team to address social inclusion throughout the school
Irondequoit Recreation -- starting the process of Inclusion throughout their department
More CHI partners are coming each year! Stay tuned as all of these wonderful entities begin thinking AND OPERATING inclusively so that all members of our community can participate!
Rochester Accessible Adventures works throughout the community (local, regional, and statewide) to bring true accessibility and social inclusion in recreation. We are rarely in "the office" but are happy to meet with you virtually or in person as we are able to. Please contact us via email at RAA@RochesterAccessibleAdventures.org or phone at 585-491-6011. Be assured we will respond to your inquiry!
Thanks for your interest in accessible and inclusive recreation and sports!
