Roberts Lake Tenure Approved - October 1st 2011 the Accessible Wilderness Society's application for a crown land tenure on Roberts Lake was approved. 
Special thanks to Minister Ida Chong and the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development for their tenure sponsorship.  The Roberts Lake site is the perfect location to begin the development of Canada's first Universally Designed resort and campground facility.  Roberts Lake is located just 35 kms. north of Campbell River and is conveniently located an hour or so from the Comox Airport and a short 2 hour drive from the Nanaimo Ferry terminal.  Incredible recreation opportunities available from fishing, kayaking, and hiking and a whole lot more.  This will prove to be a great place to start your exploration of Vancouver Island.  Let the adventure begin!

A.W.S. Visits the Roberts Lake site - Since the property is still not very wheelchair accessible we sent out Judy Bauer, Brad Bradbury and his father-in-law Ian out to explore the future home of the resort and campground facility.  Judy did some rather serious bushwhacking to get this video of a portion of the property shoreline.  The second video is of the point Judy talks about in the first video, hilarious commentary from Judy in the first video










To see more videos of the Roberts Lake property go to our Roberts Lake video page.

Strathcona Provincial Park Event – on August 21^st 2011 the Accessible Wilderness Society co-hosted an event in Strathcona Provincial Park up on Mt. Washington to help celebrate B.C. Parks 100^th anniversary.  The folks up in Strathcona Provincial Park have worked for close to 14 years to create a gorgeous partial boardwalk trail called the “Centennial Trail” that is completely wheelchair accessible.  This trail meanders its way through an area called “Paradise Meadows” and as you can see from the photos below the name is most suiting.  Minister Steven Fletcher Minister of State (Transport) of the government of Canada was in attendance as well as Minister Terry Lake Minister of Environment (Government of British Columbia) and the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environment Lori Halls.  More than 100 people attended and a fun time was had by all.  The trail itself gets a huge thumbs up from the Accessible Wilderness Society, well worth the drive up the mountain.  For more information about the Strathcona Provincial Park Trail click here.  To see the photo slide show of the Event click here.