Even in Canberra, not many people know about Vertikal Indoor Snow Sports (on Dairy Road in Fyshwick), where you can go skiing or snowboarding on huge (about 5m x 10m) variable incline treadmills. There is even a sit-ski for adaptive skiing, and you can have a wood-fired pizza along with hot chocolate or beer after your session.
Pronounced “Get-About-Able”, a social enterprise focused on improving travel and leisure options for people with disabilities. All profits are re-invested to empower people with disabilities to participate in travel and leisure activities, and to help the travel and leisure sector be more inclusive for people with disabilities.
We empower the 20% of the population with mobility, vision, hearing and other assistance needs, their families, friends and supporters to find and share information about accessible travel and leisure activities around the world.
Getaboutable.com offers a unique platform to promote inclusive businesses around the globe while encouraging and supporting them to tap into the ‘Purple Dollar’. It is a powerful and useful tool to connect the inclusive travel and leisure sector with increasing demand from people with disabilities who don’t know what is accessible in any given location, not to mention how to organise it.
Public transport (buses and trams), including Canberra’s hop-on hop-off tourism circuit, are wheelchair accessible and have both visual and auditory stop information. Unfortunately, Canberra’s public transport doesn’t go to some big tourist draw cards such as the Mount Ainslie lookout, Telstra Tower, the National Zoo and Aquarium, the Arboretum and attractions along the Cotter Road such as Mount Stromlo Observatory and Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
There is a Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Service (WATS) that participates in the Taxi Subsidy Scheme, including accepting interstate vouchers.
I use support workers from HireUp and I’ve used the HireUp platform to book support workers in other cities so I’m sure the same could be done for people needing support when visiting Canberra. Mobility Matters and Total Mobility rent and repair (as well as sell) mobility equipment.
Canberra ACT, Australia 
$80-$200
