What does Easier Access in the Brecon Beacons mean?
A few years ago the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority (BBNPA) started working with local disability groups to find ways to help disabled people get out into the countryside. The improvements sometimes included changing step over stiles with gates, replacing steps with ramps or putting down a better path surface. The disabled access steering group has been advising the BBNPA on suitable sites and how to improve them. We even started printing a guide to tell people where these sites were. The group soon realised that it wasn’t just disabled people that would benefit from these changes. We kept hearing stories of lots of other people using the guides. From parents with young children in pushchairs, people who didn’t or couldn’t walk very far to people who just wanted a nice easy walk in the Brecon Beacons. All of these different groups of people were using the disabled access guides, so we renamed it the Easier Access Guide. We’ve gathered much more information including photos of th
