No disabled traveler is without tales of bad surprises or “ADA” rooms that are anything but accommodating. Lax standards and attitudes around accessibility are all too common when booking a vacation rental. But before you hawk your luggage, check out Becoming rentABLE, a website that aims to help you find a truly accessible short-term rental, whatever your needs may be.

Becoming rentABLE gathers accessible rentals across the U.S. from websites like Airbnb, VRBO, TripAdvisor and more, and indexes them based on 36 accessibility filters. Whether you need an adjustable bed, a hoyer lift, a roll-under sink, wide doors or other access features, Becoming rentABLE can help you find a property that will work for you.

The detailed filter criteria come from the hard-won travel experience of the website’s founder, Lorraine Woodward, a wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy, whose two sons also have muscular dystrophy. Family travel was so difficult that for many years they gave up the notion of even trying. They wound up building their own getaway home on the North Carolina coast with all the accessibility features they needed.

To help pay for it, Woodward began renting the home to other families who needed the same level of accessibility. It proved rewarding both financially and spiritually, and the grateful feedback and unmet demand led her to create Becoming rentABLE in 2021. “I found out that [travel] is an important part of quality of life, and it’s the way that families create memories,” she says.

Becoming rentABLE now features 850 properties spread across all 50 states. You can browse an interactive map with all the listings, or you can search for rentals based on location and any combination of accessibility features. Becoming rentABLE also works with organizations representing a variety of disabilities to include access for a wide spectrum of disability types.

Listings are currently submitted either by property managers or by users of her website who share accessible properties they’ve found. Woodward is also rolling out an accessibility certification process for properties, which uses detailed questionnaires, client contacts and virtual verification of accessibility points, and also helps owners better present these strengths to the disability market.

To see if Becoming rentABLE has a property that can make your next vacation memorable for all the right reasons, check out the site’s accessible property search and short-term rental map.