Spring 2025: New accessible trail gates at 3 Red Rock Canyon NCA trails!
New gates have been installed at Middle Oak Creek, South Oak Creek, and First Creek trails. These gates were installed by Friends of Red Rock at the request of Trail Access Project. Our volunteer team had advocated for the improved access to those trails for years with the BLM team at Red Rock. The gates provide first time access for people with disabilities who use specialized trail-model mobility devices, such as our TerrainHoppers, on these rugged trails. The left side of the gates includes a swing gate for able bodied pedestrians to walk through while the right side is a bridge entrance for our mobilty devices to roll. The trailheads previously had barbed wire fence-lined zig-zag entrances that were also often overgrown with vegetation through which an average able bodied person would need to be careful walking through sideways. Watch the video below to see what it's like for someone using a handcycle or TerrainHopper to hike Red Rock's beautiful, but very rocky, South Oak Creek Trail to which we now have access:
