Clarion Inn – Grand Junction Colorado

August 19, 2013 – August 23, 2013

This is a fairly large hotel with two floors but without an elevator. There was some handicap parking in front with an automatic door to get into the building which I didn't actually ever use. We had to go to the back and to door F to get to our handicapped accessible room that was supposed to have two doubles and a roll in shower. But at door F there was no cut out to get onto the sidewalk. So we had to go down a ways to door E. There were no handicap parking spots near either door, but we never had trouble finding room to park.

 

When we finally made it to our room it was very tight and crowded but I could get between the beds if I backed in.

 

The table worked okay but it was difficult to get to. The light switches were very high especially for an accessible room.

 

 

The sink was good height but the bathroom door had to be shut for me to get there as it opened right in front of the sink.

 

The bathroom was not all that big and was kind of crowded my shower/ toilet chair worked fine for the toilet.

 

The "roll in shower" was too narrow for my shower chair so I had an interesting shower sitting off-center with two wheels in and wheels out. My lift could not go under the bed so we had to slide me to the corner of the bed which happens in most places.

755 Horizon Dr  Grand Junction, CO 81506
 

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Enzo's Italian restaurant – Grand Junction Colorado

August 19, 2013

We walked/drove my wheelchair from the Clarion inn.  The sidewalks were okay along the way. The parking lot of this strip mall was mostly empty so I drove through the parking lot with no problem.  The inside wasn't the most spacious place there was a couple tight areas to get through. Our table worked just fine.

759 Horizon Dr, Grand Junction, CO 81506
 

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Rest area at Edwards exit 163 – Edwards Colorado

August 19, 2013

 

This rest area had great parking there was more than enough space to load and unload.

 

 

There were a couple of picnic tables that their ends were wheelchair accessible and easy to get under.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was no automatic door to get inside. But the inside did have quite a bit of space and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 there were multiple family accessible bathrooms which were very nice except for the paper towels were too high.

 

 

 

Idaho Springs Colorado

August 19, 2013

We stopped in Idaho Springs for lunch at the Main Street restaurant. This was on Miner Street I surprisingly could get on and off most sidewalks at the corners. Some of the restaurants were accessible, but it seemed like most of the other stores were not. There were two big parking lots between 15th and 17th Ave.  The handicapped parking was okay but maybe didn't have the biggest loading zone.  When we were there on a Monday at lunch there were a lot of open parking spaces. There was a ramp up to a train that was next to the parking lot, but you can’t see in unless you go up a couple of steps. There was a path under I 70 that went to the waterwheel which was wheelchair accessible.

 

 

 

 

Main Street Restaurant - Idaho Springs, CO

August 19, 2013

We had to park and walk or drive a block or two. It was very crowded inside especially in the front, there were only two tables available and I couldn’t get to one of them.  The one we did say that was a table for two. Once I figured out how to park my wheelchair the three of us could squeeze around it okay. The bathroom in the back was very accessible and a lot better than I expected it was just one big room.

 

 

1518 Miner St.

Idaho Springs, CO 80452

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Grand Junction CO

I recently took a trip to Grand Junction CO.  I will be posting about this soon.