The Traveling Wheelchair

Rte. 3 South, Exit 5
Plymouth MA 02360
Phone: 508-746-1150
http://www.mohawktrail.com/html/body_info.html

After reading ‘Stoical 25-year-old reminder of the honor due first peoples’ by Diane Speare Triant in yesterday’s Boston Globe my friends and I hopped in the van and headed to Plymouth to see the Indian sculpture. It is located at Rte 3 Exit 5 and has been here for 25 years! We decided to do a wheelchair accessibility review of the Tourist Information Center since we were here.

There is plenty of handicap parking spaces right up front and a cement sidewalk leads to the entry doors of the Information Center. The tall Indian sculpture stands tall on the property in front of the Tourist Information Center and McDonalds. The Base of the sculpture reads  “Enisketomp” – the Wampanoag word for “human being” – and that he is “a gift to the people of Massachusetts.” Diane Speat Triant told the story about Peter Wolf Toth who sculpted this Indian carving plus 72 others throughout the US. His carvings are known as ‘The Trail of the Whispering Giants’.  He did it to honor the first Americans!

After I saw the Indian sculpture we headed into the Tourist Center. There are two entry doors you need to go through to enter and neither is an automatic door so you will need help with opening both doors. The service counter has a lower area that is wheelchair accessible and is perfect height for me in my wheelchair.

The staff are very kind. A nice staff person told my friends and me that they get many visitors in wheelchairs and can’t understand why automatic doors aren’t installed! The center has many brochures of places to see in MA and the staff will answer any questions you may have.

I give the Tourist Information Center of Plymouth FOUR STARS for wheelchair accessibility. They would just need to install automatic entry doors to earn the other Star.