Everyone should be able to enjoy the thrill of travel. Check out our list of some of the most accessible attractions in the U.S., some you probably know and new ones to add to your list.

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Theme parks

Disney Land and Universal Resorts are often recognized for offering a wide range of accommodations for guests with disabilities. Here are two more top rated parks for accessibility you may not have considered for your next family vacation:

Sesame Place, Philadelphia and San Diego

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? The closest you will get to the real thing is a visit to Sesame Place theme parks. Your little Sesame Street fan will love the water park and dry rides with character themes, including Elmo’s Cloud Chaser and The Count’s Splash Castle. Young and old fans alike will enjoy the full-scale replica of Sesame Street.

In 2018, Sesame Place was the first theme park to earn international recognition as a Certified Autism Center. As a CAC, Sesame Place provides trained staff, a sensory guide to the park, a low sensory room, in addition to hidden disabilities programming.

Guests with disabilities can determine which rides are best for them with the park’s Ride Accessibility Guide . Sesame Place has staff trained to assist visitors with a wide range of services, including providing visual guides and wheelchair access.

Morgan’s Wonderland, San Antonio, Texas

Like all parents, Gordon Hartman wished for his child to make friends and enjoy playing with other children. When Hartman observed kids hesitating to invite his daughter, Morgan, to play water games at a hotel swimming pool, he wanted to create a space where people with and without disabilities could have fun together and better understand each other. A few years later in 2010, Morgan’s Wonderland, the first theme park designed around people with disabilities, was born.

The park was expanded in 2017 to include Morgan’s Inspiration Island, which was named one of the “World’s Greatest Places” by TIME Magazine. All of the park’s attractions were designed to be trademark-rated Ultra-Accessible. “From a wheelchair-accessible Ferris wheel to catch-and-release fishing, there is truly something for everyone to enjoy,” writes Morgan’s Wonderland.

Culture and arts

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York is fully wheelchair accessible, with wide galleries, wheelchair accessible restrooms and elevators. The Smithsonian Institution offers specialized tours for people with low vision that allow visitors to explore works through touch and descriptive lectures.

More accessible places to learn about art and history:

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Located in Bentonvile, Arkansas, Crystal Bridges is completely wheelchair accessible and accommodates multiple visible and invisible disabilities. The museum offers sign langage interpreted tours and descriptive audio tours. EnChroma glasses are available to visitors with colorblindness.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs

Named the nation’s Best New Attraction in 2020 by USA Today, The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum has won numerous awards for accessibility. Tap into your inner elite athlete with interactive, themed exhibits.

Wide ramps and galleries allow wheelchair users to easily access exhibitions. The museum also offers tactile and descriptive audio programs, open captioning, sign language interpretation of its exhibits, and low sensory exhibitions and tools.

Zoological and natural areas

All exhibits at The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington D.C. are accessible to visitors with limited mobility through the aid of ramps, elevators and escalators. The zoo also offers sign language interpretation and audio description services.

Download the zoo’s social stories for people with cognitive disabilities which highlight what visitors can expect at the zoo. The stories include guides with information about quiet areas, educational demonstrations and hands-on activities.

Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park are also known for their accessibility. Yosemite offers a series of paved trails and Yellowstone has accessible walkways leading to natural attractions such as Old Faithful.

Here’s additional spots nature lovers may want to add to their list:

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

Thanks to the non-profit group Friends of Sleeping Bear, more of the shores of Lake Michigan within Sleeping Bear Dunes are accessible. In 2019, Friends of Sleeping Bear made track chairs (motorized, all terrain chairs) available to people with limited mobility, who wanted to enjoy the trails. Sleeping Bear Dunes also offers visitors sand wheelchairs capable of traveling over dunes and beaches, and an accessible accessible canoe launch and campsites.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Ranked the nation’s second best zoo in 2025 by USA Today, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo stands out for its inclusiveness. Guests with mobility limitations can rent a golf cart shuttle service or manual and motorized wheelchairs. Guests with sensory needs can take a break in quiet zones, or with sensory bags and weighted blankets. Admission for professional caregivers is free.

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