Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation, the Western Maine-based non-profit targeted on making the outside extra accessible to individuals with disabilities, is transferring right into a new homebase — at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School’s basecamp in Newry.
Maine Adaptive’s co-executive director, Amy Barron, says the campus contains completely different sorts of lodging, amenities, gathering areas, trails, and 375 acres of forest land. That will enable the organization to develop its year-round out of doors recreation applications and supply much-needed area to retailer their rising fleet of adaptive units. She says the partnership between the 2 establishments was a matter of the celebrities, and their missions, being aligned.
“It’s very important to both Outward Bound and Maine Adaptive that this campus remains accessible and also preserved, in the sense of being this beautiful place where people can experience all the best things the wilderness of Maine has to offer,” mentioned Barron.
Barron says up till now, Maine Adaptive, which was established in the early Nineteen Eighties, has been renting workplace area in Bethel, storing its gear in trailers, and providing primarily cell programming. But she says transferring into Outward Bound’s Newry campus represents a new chapter, and an opportunity to set down roots.
“While there’s a lot of work to do on the campus to truly bring it to a universally accessible design, it has the facilities right away that allow us to bring people here,” mentioned Barron. “They can stay, they can enjoy the trails, and we can build community in a more meaningful and grounded way than we ever have before.”
Barron says Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation will proceed utilizing Sunday River in Bethel because the hub for its winter sports activities actions.