Desert botanical garden – Phoenix Arizona

March 12, 2017

There are quite a few very nice handicapped parking spots in the parking lot right up close. From there it's pretty easy to get to the main entrance and where they sell tickets. Throughout the garden is mostly wheelchair accessible, however there were a few places that weren't too good. There is a nice restroom just inside the gates with a decent size stall. They have quite a few nice accessible trails. When we were leaving we had an interesting issue with my wheelchair as the battery died while we were there and I almost couldn't up the ramp and back into the van so the next day or two we had to figure out how to get them replaced which isn’t exactly fun on a vacation.

Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008

Greater Des Moines botanical Gardens – Des Moines Iowa

August 9, 2016

Was a little difficult to find but it might have just been our GPS was lost. There was good parking and the lobby was very easy to navigate. They had nice restrooms and the family restroom which was a large room with a ton of space. The tropical dome was nice and pretty easy to get around outside there were nice paths but the garden kind of just came to an end. But everything there was very accessible.

Address: 909 Robert D. Ray Dr, Des Moines, IA 50309

Vander Veer Botanical Park – Davenport Iowa

August 7, 2016

We eventually found a handicap parking spot after driving around a bit and there would’ve been more if we came in from the other side of the park. There were a lot of trails throughout the park and we walked through the vegetable garden area and the Rose Garden which were both pretty much accessible. The restroom looked like it wasn’t all that big and not that accessible, but it may have barely worked.

 

 

 

Address: 215 W Central Park Ave, Davenport, IA 52803

 

 

Quad cities botanical Park – Rock Island Illinois

August 7, 2016

There was a lot of accessible paths but a couple of them kind of just ended, and to go out on the grass in some places. From the inside you had to take a hall and then you come to the outdoor train area, but down that hall was a desk sitting there which made it pretty difficult to get through the hall. The rest of the inside was fairly accessible.

 

 

 

Address: 2525 4th Ave, Rock Island, IL 61201

Desert botanical Gardens – Phoenix Arizona

 March 10, 2016

There was very nice handicap parking that was easy to get to the entry from. Inside has quite a few accessible trails, mostly accessible anyways. Along with benches to sit every so often. The bathroom near the entry was decently accessible.

 

 

 

Address: 1201 N Galvin Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ 85008

Website  https://www.dbg.org/

 

 

 

Chaparral Park and Xeriscape Garden– Scottsdale Arizona

March 5, 2016

This had a little trail through it that was fairly accessible not too exciting but all right it was at a park that had baseball and soccer field so the parking lot was a bit busy on a Saturday afternoon but there were multiple handicap spots that would work all right.

 

 

Chaparral Park

Address: 5401 N Hayden Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85250

 

 

Japanese friendship garden – Phoenix Arizona

March 4, 2016

Most of the garden was accessible for the main path. A few places were not too accessibl,e but most of it was nice with benches to sit here and there. There was also good handicap parking and a pretty accessible restroom.

 

 

 

 

 

Ro Ho En, the Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix

Address: 1125 N 3rd Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85003

San Antonio Botanical Garden – San Antonio, Texas

October 23, 2015

There was decent parking with some good handicap spots. The main building was an older building where you entered and paid and there is the gift shop and the restroom. Which was a little tight in the stall and in the whole restroom really. There were a lot of accessible paths in the garden, but there were a lot of dead in paths that made it a little difficult for a wheelchair user.  Not only wheelchairs but for everyone.

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San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden – San Antonio, Texas

October 22 2015

Their sign however says Chinese garden

This place was not exactly very accessible there were steps up to the front, but there is a ramp to the side.  At the top of the ramp there is a shelter that looks down at the garden. Part of the area there is sandy and gravelly and I needed to be pushed to get back onto the sidewalk and ramp to go back down. I had to go down the ramp back to the parking lot to get to the lower area were the garden was. Down in the garden was pretty nice but it was difficult to navigate a lot of the places down there.

 

 

 

 

San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden

 

3875 N St Mary's St, San Antonio, TX

 

 

Red Butte Gardens Salt Lake City Utah

June 19, 2014

 

 

 

This garden is located at the University of Utah. The handicapped parking was all full when we got there so we parked out further and down to the lower part of the parking lot. So we had to walk a bit of a ways back to the building.  It was easy to get in the door. From here you had to go up an elevator and right near where you get out of the elevator is a very nice bathroom. Then to get to the garden you exit out one of the many doors. Most of the trails were accessible and there were quite a few places to sit and rest. There is a little trail that was very steep not too far from the main building.

 

 

 

300 Wakara Way

Salt Lake City, UT 84108


 

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Western Colorado botanical Gardens – Grand Junction Colorado

August 20, 2013

This was a small garden. The parking lot was kind of small but there were three or four handicap spots from there it was easy to get to the building.  The butterfly house was kind of crowded and there were minimal places where I could turn around. The trails outside were mostly accessible, except a few places here and there were not very easy to get through or to. The bathroom you had to come back out of the garden to the other side of the building this was very accessible and I had plenty of room.

 

 

 

 

 641 Struthers Avenue

 Grand Junction, CO 81501
 

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Missouri botanical Gardens St. Louis Missouri

September 11, 2012

 

There were many handicap spots with plenty of room to unload from there it was easy to get to the main building. Inside was good there was plenty of room to easily navigate the building. In The bathroom right up front by the door there was one handicap stall that was not very big, but the sinks were easy to get to and use, this was just like the other bathrooms as well.

The garden part was rather large and we didn't come close to seeing everything.  Most of the trails and paths were wheelchair accessible, except a few places. There were also many benches and places to sit down. The gift shop was a little hard to get around in some places, but not any worse than most gift shops.

 

4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110

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