Franklin Park Adventure Center — Attraction in Columbus

The Franklin Park Adventure Center is extremely difficult to travel to if (1.) you travel by "fixed" COTA bus routes [for example. the #10 Broad St. bus] and (2.) you have a movement limitation.

I took a #10 Broad St. bus to Franklin Park on 9-28-2017 so that I would be able to attend a "disabilities-related" event at the Franklin Park Adventure Center. I got off at the nearest bus stop and then had to walk on grass for a distance of approximately two blocks.

There are paved roads within Franklin Park but walking only on the paved roads would have greatly increased my distance to the Franklin Park Adventure Center from E. Broad St. so I decided to walk on the grass.

The second time that I had been planning to travel to the Franklin Park Adventure Center to attend a "disabilities-related" event, I had been "on oxygen" and would have had to roll my large tank of oxygen over the grass for two blocks [or four blocks on the paved roads] so I decided to not attempt to travel there because of the great amount of effort that would have been involved.

I wonder how the people in wheelchairs who appear in many of the pictures of the Franklin Park Adventure Center had...

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