Adaptive Adventures

01/16/2026

01/14/2026

Join Adaptive Adventures for an inclusive outdoor recreation demo at Base Camp Market Station in downtown Denver!

Experience an afternoon of good vibes, great giveaways (featuring brands like Topo Designs, Danner Boots, and Scarpaletto), and learn from the experts how we're expanding accessible outdoor recreation to our Colorado community!

📅 Saturday, January 24th
📍1464 17th St, Denver
🕕 11 AM to 2 PM

Bring your family and come say hi to your friends at Adaptive Adventures, and see what's possible for you in 2026! 🦾

01/04/2026

✨ In another grateful moment…

Today we want to recognize our incredible friends and partners at Ride Designs, Aspen Seating, Enabling Technologies, and Creating Ability. These organizations play a vital role in supporting our athletes through equipment, specialized adaptations, and the customized seating solutions that make movement comfortable, safe, and empowering.

Their expertise and generosity ensure that participants across our cycling, climbing, paddlesports, and multisport programs have access to the right equipment—adapted to their bodies, their goals, and their freedom to move. From fine-tuned seating systems to sport-specific adaptations, their support helps us meet athletes exactly where they are and opens doors for them to go even further.

We are deeply grateful for partners who understand that the right fit, the right configuration, and the right equipment can transform a participant’s experience. Their collaboration helps us say “yes” more often, welcome more athletes, and create programs where everyone can participate fully and confidently.

Thank you, Ride Designs, Aspen Seating, Enabling Technologies, and Creating Ability, for the care, craftsmanship, and heart you bring to every athlete you touch. 💙✨

01/01/2026

✨ As we close out 2025, our hearts are full.

To every participant, volunteer, caregiver, partner, donor, staff member, and friend of Adaptive Adventures, thank you. This year was filled with powerful moments: first rides, bold climbs, shared miles, breakthrough stories, and countless reminders of why community matters so deeply.

Whether you joined us at a program, supported from afar, partnered to expand access, helped transport equipment, encouraged a new rider, or simply believed in the work, you were part of something truly meaningful.
Because of you, thousands of individuals with physical disabilities experienced freedom through mobility, connection, and joy.

As we step into a new year, we carry those memories, and that momentum, with us.

🎥 Before the year officially wraps, we invite you to watch our 2025 Year-End Video
It’s a celebration of the people, stories, and shared moments that shaped this unforgettable year. We hope it brings you the same joy, pride, and hope that it brings to us.

🌟 Here’s to a bright, connected, adventure-filled 2026.
Thank you for being part of our community. Happy New Year from all of us at Adaptive Adventures! 💙⛰️✨

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12/31/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: Our Youth Community Partners

Today we’re celebrating three incredible local organizations that help create meaningful, confidence-building experiences for young people with physical disabilities: Camp Promise, LIM359, and Colorado Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp. Each partnership allows us to support youth in discovering movement, joy, and connection in unique ways.

🏕️ Camp Promise
With Camp Promise, we support adaptive cycling, giving campers the opportunity to experience the freedom and excitement of riding in a fun, supportive environment. These rides are often some of the most memorable moments of the week.

💛 Lim359
Our partnership with Lim359 includes cycling and climbing, two activities their community loves, especially climbing. Together, we create welcoming spaces where youth with limb loss or limb difference can explore new challenges, build strength, and connect with peers who understand their journey.

🏀 Colorado Jr. Wheelchair Sports Camp
At Colorado Jr. Wheelchair Sports Camp, we support adaptive cycling, introducing young athletes to bikes and handcycles they may be trying for the first time. These sessions help build confidence, independence, and a love for staying active.

We’re grateful for the passion and heart these partners bring to Colorado’s youth community. Together, we’re opening doors for kids to discover what’s possible, and to feel supported, celebrated, and excited to move their bodies in ways that feel good to them.

Here’s to more miles, more climbs, and more unforgettable moments ahead. 💙✨

12/30/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: Project Hero Denver Hub

Today we’re celebrating a partner whose mission aligns beautifully with ours: Project Hero Denver Hub.

Project Hero Denver Hub creates a powerful community for veterans and first responders who find healing, resilience, and connection through cycling. Their focus on building strength and camaraderie through traditional riding naturally complements our adaptive cycling programs, allowing both organizations to support riders in different ways along their journey.

Through group rides, peer support, and a welcoming culture, Project Hero Denver Hub offers veterans a place to push their limits, regain confidence, and reconnect with the joy of being on a bike. Their dedication to wellness and community shines through in everything they do.

We’re grateful for the partnership, the shared passion for movement, and the collective impact we’re creating for veterans across Colorado. Together, we’re expanding opportunities for riders to feel supported, challenged, and part of something bigger.

Here’s to the miles behind us and the meaningful ones still ahead. 🚴‍♂️💙✨

12/28/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: Macy's

Today we’re celebrating a partner whose support has made a meaningful, lasting impact on youth and innovation within our mission: Macy’s.

Macy’s previously supported our I Can Ride A Bike Initiative, helping young people with physical disabilities experience the confidence, independence, and mental health benefits of learning to ride. Their investment created transformative first-ride moments that still resonate with families today.

Now, Macy’s is fueling the future of adaptive innovation through their support of our Student Solutions Program. Their funding has directly enabled the prototype development of pressure-sensing audible climbing holds for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Thanks to their generosity, the student team was able to build two complete sensor kits, one for home and one for travel, ensuring we can gather real-world feedback from climbers across the country.

Macy’s partnership reflects a belief in possibility, creativity, and inclusion. Their investment is helping bring new adaptive technologies to life through student innovators and ensuring that young people continue to have access to experiences that strengthen both body and mind.

We are deeply grateful for Macy’s ongoing support and excited for the breakthroughs ahead. 💙✨

12/25/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: Outride & RAD-Innovations LLC

We’re excited to highlight one of the most meaningful collaborations shaping our Adaptive Cycling Program this year, our new partnership with Outride, along with the essential support of our equipment partners RAD Innovations and ABUS Helmets.

Outride has long believed in the transformative power of bikes, and their commitment to expanding access to cycling aligns perfectly with our mission. Together, we’re creating more opportunities for individuals with physical disabilities to experience the freedom, confidence, and pure joy that comes with riding.

With RAD Innovations, we’re able to bring high-quality adaptive cycles to riders of all ages, abilities, and goals, opening doors for first-time riders, returning athletes, and families discovering adaptive recreation for the first time. Their expertise ensures that every participant is matched with equipment that feels empowering, comfortable, and safe.

Together, these partners are helping us build an adaptive cycling community where everyone has access to the start line, the adventure, and the joy of the ride. This collaboration is expanding possibilities for our athletes and strengthening the future of inclusive cycling nationwide.

Here’s to new partnerships, new riders, and the many meaningful miles ahead. 🚴💙✨@

12/24/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: Our Partners in Making Outside Days Truly Inclusive

One of our favorite moments each year is getting to be part of Outside Days, created and led by Outside. It’s an incredible celebration of all things outdoor recreation, and we’re honored to contribute to a festival where accessibility and inclusion are intentionally centered, not tucked into the margins.

Today we’re highlighting the partners who help make that possible:

🌄Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office
Their leadership continues to position Colorado as a national leader in accessible outdoor recreation. Because of their commitment to inclusion, events like Outside Days welcome people of all abilities, and we’re proud to move this work forward together.

🏕️ Outside Magazine
As the hosts of Outside Days, their people-first approach ensures adaptive recreation is visible, celebrated, and integrated throughout the event. They create a space where everyone can explore, participate, and feel a true sense of belonging.

❤️ UCHealth - Ready. Set. CO.
Through our partnership with UCHealth and their Ready Set CO initiative, Coloradans of all abilities are encouraged to get active and build healthy habits outdoors. We’re grateful to share this vision of movement and wellness statewide.

🚴 Grassroots Gravel
Grassroots Gravel brings incredible energy, and the International Bicycle Flat Tire World Series, adding fun, competition, and community spirit for riders of all backgrounds and abilities.

These partnerships make our participation in Outside Days meaningful and impactful. Together, we’re helping build an outdoor industry where people with disabilities are seen, included, and invited into every part of the outdoor experience.

✨ Save the Dates
Outside Days returns May 29–31, 2026, and we’re excited to be part of it again. Stay tuned, this is one event you won’t want to miss! ⛰️💙

12/23/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: BAE Systems, Inc.

Some partnerships spark new ideas. Others help turn those ideas into real-world solutions. Our work with BAE Systems has done both, and has propelled our Student Solutions Program into an exciting new chapter of innovation.

With BAE Systems’ support, our Student Solutions Program has become a national platform where engineering students, designers, and future problem-solvers work hand-in-hand with our community to create adaptive technologies that matter. Together, we’re reimagining what’s possible in mobility, recreation, and daily independence for individuals with physical disabilities.

This program doesn’t live in a lab. It lives on trails, at climbing walls, on bikes, in kayaks, and in real moments where thoughtful design can change someone’s experience entirely. Because of BAE Systems, students from universities across the country are developing practical, user-centered solutions, from micro-movement trackers to sensory substitution devices, from adaptive navigation tools to new equipment that reduces barriers to participation.

What makes this partnership special is the shared belief that innovation should be grounded in humanity. BAE Systems understands that technology has the power to open doors, especially when created alongside the people who will use it. Their support ensures that every prototype, every project, and every breakthrough is shaped by lived experience, creativity, and purpose.

We’re deeply grateful for BAE Systems’ commitment to building the future with us, not just for us, and for championing the next generation of adaptive technology leaders who will move this field forward.

Stay tuned as we continue spotlighting the partners who helped make this year extraordinary!

12/22/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: DAV & DAV Charitable Service Trust

Some partnerships feel transactional. Others feel transformative. Our relationship with DAV and the DAV Charitable Service Trust has become the kind that changes the way we move forward, together.

Over the years, DAV and the DAV CST haven’t simply funded programs; they’ve stood beside us in the work. They’ve understood the heart behind every mile we ride, every veteran who shows up unsure, every moment when someone discovers, “I can still do this.” That understanding has made this partnership feel less like two organizations collaborating and more like two teams walking the same path with the same purpose.

What we value most is how deeply they lean into the “why” with us. They recognize that adaptive recreation is not just an activity, it’s a lifeline. It’s restoration. It’s community in the truest sense. And because they see this so clearly, their support has allowed us to reach veterans at pivotal moments in their lives, offering connection, movement, and hope when those things feel out of reach.

DAV and the DAV CST have helped us grow, innovate, and dream bigger. And as we continue building new programs, new spaces, and new ways to stay connected with veterans year-round, they remain a partner we trust wholeheartedly, a partner committed to moving forward step-by-step, mile-by-mile, with us.

To DAV and the DAV Charitable Service Trust: thank you for being more than supporters. Thank you for being true partners in this work, in this mission, and in the journey ahead. 🇺🇸💙

More partner spotlights coming soon as we continue honoring those who helped shape this remarkable year.

12/20/2025

✨ Partner Spotlight: REI and REI Cooperative Action Fund

Some partnerships don’t just support your work—they help shape the way you imagine what’s possible. That’s why today we’re celebrating the REI Cooperative Action Fund, a partner whose belief in inclusive outdoor spaces has helped us reach families and communities in powerful new ways.

Their support has allowed us to bring adaptive recreation directly into neighborhoods where access has historically been limited. Because of the REI Cooperative Action Fund, more kids, parents, caregivers, and individuals with physical disabilities are experiencing the freedom of a bike ride, the confidence of trying a new sport, and the joy of connecting with community.

What we appreciate most about this partnership is that it goes beyond funding. REI Cooperative Action Fund champions the idea that the outdoors belongs to everyone—and they put real action behind that belief. Their investment has helped us expand programs, strengthen family-focused events, and continue building a more welcoming outdoor culture.

We’re grateful not just for their support, but for the shared vision that drives it. 💚✨

More partner highlights coming soon as we continue to celebrate those who helped make this year so impactful!