People With Disabilities Can Hike At State Park Thanks To All-Terrain Wheelchair

The nonprofit decided to buy and dedicate the chair in memory of Mark Madsen, a man who was paralyzed and loved spending time in Staunton.

Madsen, who died in August 2015, spent much of his childhood hiking and fishing in the area that is now Staunton State Park. That was before he was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2001 car accident, according to High Timber Times.

“My parents bought a cabin [in the area] in 1983, so we all used it — especially Mark,” Marie Hensick, Madsen’s sister, told the paper. “He would come here in summers before the accident, and we’d bike all over. This was his place of renewal, inspiration, refueling.”