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The Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
The BOEC was established in Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1976 as a non-profit tax-exempt educational organization to provide outdoor experiences for people with disabilities and to train the instructors who work with special populations. Ultimately, the BOEC strives to integrate disability with ability, providing outdoor experiences to all.  We welcome people of all abilities from around the world to spectacular natural classrooms in the Rocky Mountains and beyond.
Call 970.453.6422.

The DBTAC Rocky Mountain ADA Center
provides information on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
 
1-800-949-4232 V/TTY 

Adaptive Adventures
Founded in 1999 by a group of physically challenged individuals, Adaptive Adventures is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization working to advance the quality of life of people with disabilities through outdoor sports and recreation. The agency identifies, promotes, and provides progressive sports and recreation opportunities for children, adults and veterans with physical disabilities.

Access Anything
The mission of Access Anything is to improve the quality of life for millions of people living with disabilities in the United States and around the world by encouraging them to enjoy life to its fullest through the sense of freedom provided by travel, adventure, and a “never give up” attitude. It is our vision to spread awareness concerning the need for better accessibility by writing guidebooks and articles for people with disabilities, consulting with travelers and industry professionals on improvements in this industry, and establishing a common ground where people and information can come together and work to expand the rapidly growing adaptive travel industry through motivational speaking and general educating.

The National Sports Center for the Disabled
The mission of the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) is to provide quality outdoor sports and therapeutic recreation programs that positively impact the lives of people with physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral challenges. They offer Adaptive racer training for full-time and part-time athletes.

Roundup River Ranch
Roundup Ranch enriches the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses by providing free, year-round camping experiences with appropriate medical care that are fun, safe and empowering. The camp is a provisional member of the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, founded in 1988 by Paul Newman and is now the largest family of camps worldwide for children with serious illnesses.

Small Champions
Small Champions is a grass roots charitable foundation providing programs for young children with such diverse disabilities as Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, blindness and autism. Designed for children from Eagle County, Small Champions strives to introduce a wide variety of sports to each of its participants. Programs include skiing and snowboarding, swimming, horseback riding, rock climbing and golf.

Special Olympics Colorado
The mission of Special Olympics Colorado (SOCO) is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, eight years of age and older, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Canine Companions
The most advanced technology capable of transforming the lives of people with disabilities has a cold nose and a warm heart.
Canine Companions for Independence® provides highly-trained assistance dogs for children and adults with disabilities, free of charge.

The Vail Veterans Program
The Vail Veterans Program offers skiing, snowboarding and outdoor summer recreation activities to United States military men and women who have been severely wounded while serving our country in Afghanistan and Iraq at no cost to the participant and their guest.
The program focuses on their abilities not their disabilities and allows them to discover confidence in themselves.  Family members and the staff of Military Medical Centers are invited to attend which allows them to be a part of this life-changing experience for the wounded veteran.
The Vail Veterans Program is a
501(c)(3) volunteer organization based in Vail, Colorado and has been changing wounded veteran's lives for the last six years.

The Heuga Center
The Heuga Center is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1984 to offer MS programs based on the philosophy of founder, Jimmie Heuga: that a person can have a chronic disease and also maintain their health. The Center has expanded Jimmie's philosophy from a focus on physical fitness with MS to a focus on the whole person and family living with the impacts of MS.
Programs include education, nutrition, mental well-being, and exercise, as well as learning specific, individualized life management skills and ways to integrate wellness activities into everyday life. The Center's Programs help people set personal life goals as a focal point for reclaiming their lives, and then give them the strategies, confidence and support to strive for those goals.

First Descents

First Descents provides whitewater kayaking and other outdoor adventure experiences to promote emotional, psychological and physical healing for young adults with cancer.

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