Recreational Horizons is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization that has provided unique travel experiences for intellectually disabled students and adults for more than 45 years. Our goal is to provide very special trips for very special people.

Recreational Horizons offers a wide variety of trip experiences during the year, including spring break trips, summer trips, and fall break trips. 

The trips are available to ambulatory intellectually disabled individuals who can function behaviorally in 3 participants to 1 chaperone. They should also be capable of handling their essential self-care, as well as being able to communicate their needs, wants, and concerns.

When the group travels, we strive to increase the participants’ independence and enhance their communication, self-help, and social skills. We also work to break down barriers between our travelers and the general public.

On our trips, we stay in various hotels and eat at local restaurants (either in the community or at our multiple destinations). Most of our volunteers have years of experience working with the intellectually disabled. Many have backgrounds as educators, group home staff, day work/program employees, or Special Olympics volunteers.

Recreational Horizons takes pride in the quality of support we try to provide to all of our participants. We assist them in daily living areas such as grooming skills, dietary needs, or medication administration. But our ultimate goal is to provide those who go on our trips with experiences that would not otherwise be available. A related goal is to provide some much-needed respite time for their family members and caregivers.