The Western Land Conservancy, based in Moreland Hills, Ohio, recently purchased and installed two of TimberHomes’ Locust Benches. These benches are special to TimberHomes because they are the first example of the new ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant handrails in use. As an add-on, the handrails offer may be the wooden park bench option you’ve been looking for. Also new, these benches included post bottom brackets which allowed the locust benches to be installed onto a concrete slab.
Dale Dunford, the Western Lands Conservancy’s Parks and Preserves Manager shared, “Western Reserve Land Conservancy is non-profit land trust that helps private landowners protect their land with conservation easements. We also help protect farmland from development with agricultural easements and help revitalize the city of Cleveland with a variety of urban projects. The benches installed today were placed at our Oberlin Preserve that is a restored prairie habitat and the specific project was the final piece of an ADA component of the park. This project utilized ADA compliant permeable pavers that led to a pavilion with ADA friendly benches. From the pavilion an ADA compliant trail leads out into the prairie.”
