What’s the value of a $1.1 million investment in a Tulsa park? It means that Finnigan Bark, and others with disabilities, can get closer to nature at Chandler Park.
Chandler Park’s new Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant trail has been completed and is slated to open soon, bringing opportunities for people of all abilities to enjoy the view. It’s a paved 6-foot-wide trail that’s about .75 miles long and replaces a sketchy, occasionally washed-out-in-places gravel path.
Bark uses a wheelchair to accommodate his aggressive form of Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome. He’s been to Chandler Park before for the Monarchs on the Mountain event. But the lower level was inaccessible to many because of the rough trail…