Discover
We identify and verify adaptive opportunities, equipment, providers, expertise, access information, and gaps throughout Marquette County.
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette + adventure + possibility
Adventure belongs to everyone.
We live in an extraordinary and active place. Marquette Adaptive is working alongside people, resources, and organizations to help make more of Marquette County's outdoor experiences accessible to more people.
Adaptive Alpine is our first BUILD effort — not the whole organization. The broader mission is year-round adaptive outdoor recreation throughout Marquette County.
What would you like to experience?
Our operating model
Discover. Connect. Support. Build.
Build. Support. Connect. still guides the work — with discovery first, so funding and program decisions follow real local need.
Connect
When a good adaptive opportunity already exists, we help people find it and credit the organization actually doing the work.
Support
When an existing organization can serve more people with the right support, we help connect equipment, expertise, funding, volunteers, partnerships, or other resources.
Build
When a meaningful need is verified and no appropriate local opportunity addresses it, we may help build the missing infrastructure responsibly.
We are joining good work
We did not invent adaptive recreation here.
Volunteers, families, organizations, clubs, professionals, and advocates have been building adaptive and inclusive recreation in Marquette County for years — Superiorland Ski Club's Para-Nordic program, SAIL's SPAR program, Special Olympics Area 36, and others. We name them, credit them, and want to help them do more.
Our question isn't how Marquette Adaptive can own adaptive recreation. It's simpler: what needs to happen for this adventure to become possible?
Collaborate before duplicating. Share the credit.
This is Marquette
Rock, forest, snow, water, trails — and room for more people in all of it.
Funding follows real need
Help make more adaptive adventure possible in Marquette County.
Support should not simply make Marquette Adaptive bigger. It should help the community build what's missing, strengthen what's working, and connect people to adventure.
- 01Build what’s missing
- Support demonstrated community gaps where no appropriate local opportunity currently addresses the need.
- 02Strengthen what’s working
- Help qualified existing providers expand adaptive recreation through equipment, training, expertise, access support, partnerships, or other real needs.
- 03Connect people to adventure
- Maintain the infrastructure that makes local opportunities, equipment, providers, and accessibility information easier to discover.
How the system works
Show what exists. Celebrate who built it.
- Discover
- Verify
- Connect
- Listen
- Identify the gap
- Mobilize
- Support or build
- Verify again
We don't plan to operate all of these. Where someone already does it well, we support them. Where there's a genuine gap, real demand, qualified expertise, and funding, we help build it.
The measure is simple: what became possible because people, providers, businesses, professionals, volunteers, and resources came together?
See community needsFounded by Kirsten. Built by many.
Built to last.
Marquette Adaptive is being built for the long term — strong community partnerships, qualified program leaders, thoughtful training, and simple reliable systems so adaptive recreation can keep growing throughout Marquette County.
About us & our founderHelp make more possible.
What could we make possible together? Tell us what you want to try, what you know about, or what you can help make real.