Per the Westercon 74 Hotels page, "Approximately 5% of the hotel rooms in Tonopah are specifically equipped as handicapped-accessible, and approximately 1% have roll-in showers." (That page also includes photos of accessible rooms where we were able to get access to them during our visits thus far.) Westercon 74's hotel liaison's wife is a wheelchair user herself, and therefore they are very aware of the issue.
I do not expect there to be electric carts for rental. It's too far from Reno or Las Vegas.
As I say in "From the Chair," in PR 1, and as we foreshadowed while we were bidding, we aren't planning to hold an art show, due to lack of space.
Per the Westercon 74 Convention Center page, "The convention center is ADA compliant, with ramps between the lower and upper levels, handicapped parking spaces, and accessible restrooms." We have included photos of the convention center on that page. Click through most of those photos to see more photos of the area.
There are two programming function rooms in the convention center itself, and one other room (the 150 seat "ballroom") located above the Mizpah Club. There are sidewalks, paved streets, and accessible routes, albeit that the accessible route between the Convention Center and the Mizpah Club is longer than the non-accessible route. I've walked all of these routes myself in person. That's why I used the gmaps-pedometer tool rather just Google Maps; I wanted the routes to reflect a realistic path, avoiding steps or unpaved areas. There are links to detailed maps of the walking routes on the Convention Facilities page.
There is video of a walk between the Convention Center and the Mizpah on the Convention Facilities page. (Note that the video "cuts the corner" on the accessible route, as there is set of steps I go up at one point.) You might also want to consider using Google Street View to "walk" the area virtually.
Because we expect to need to use nearly all of Tonopah's hotels, there is no single answer to "distance from hotels to programming." See the Hotels page for the details.
Is there anything on those pages (or elsewhere on the Westercon 74 web site, or in the linked-through photographs in my Tonopah Tour Flickr album) that leaves you in the dark about anything? While I'd love to publish all of this material in paper form, it's not very practical to do so. Consequently, we've been trying really hard to put lots of material on the web site answering these sorts of questions. If you think we're missing something, please let me know. If it's possible for us to add it to the site, we'll do so.
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I do not expect there to be electric carts for rental. It's too far from Reno or Las Vegas.
As I say in "From the Chair," in PR 1, and as we foreshadowed while we were bidding, we aren't planning to hold an art show, due to lack of space.
Per the Westercon 74 Convention Center page, "The convention center is ADA compliant, with ramps between the lower and upper levels, handicapped parking spaces, and accessible restrooms." We have included photos of the convention center on that page. Click through most of those photos to see more photos of the area.
There are two programming function rooms in the convention center itself, and one other room (the 150 seat "ballroom") located above the Mizpah Club. There are sidewalks, paved streets, and accessible routes, albeit that the accessible route between the Convention Center and the Mizpah Club is longer than the non-accessible route. I've walked all of these routes myself in person. That's why I used the gmaps-pedometer tool rather just Google Maps; I wanted the routes to reflect a realistic path, avoiding steps or unpaved areas. There are links to detailed maps of the walking routes on the Convention Facilities page.
There is video of a walk between the Convention Center and the Mizpah on the Convention Facilities page. (Note that the video "cuts the corner" on the accessible route, as there is set of steps I go up at one point.) You might also want to consider using Google Street View to "walk" the area virtually.
Because we expect to need to use nearly all of Tonopah's hotels, there is no single answer to "distance from hotels to programming." See the Hotels page for the details.
Is there anything on those pages (or elsewhere on the Westercon 74 web site, or in the linked-through photographs in my Tonopah Tour Flickr album) that leaves you in the dark about anything? While I'd love to publish all of this material in paper form, it's not very practical to do so. Consequently, we've been trying really hard to put lots of material on the web site answering these sorts of questions. If you think we're missing something, please let me know. If it's possible for us to add it to the site, we'll do so.