Press Kit: Extreme Motus at Zion National Park

For media inquiries: Ryan Grassley, Co-founder & CMO, Extreme Motus — (801) 683-9191. Everything on this page — photos, facts, and background — is free to use for editorial coverage.

Quick Facts

• Zion National Park now permanently hosts a free, public-use Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchair at the Zion Canyon Visitor Center, available first-come, first-served.
• The chair was donated in July 2025 through 2LIV4, a nonprofit that funds adaptive outdoor equipment, following roughly two years of planning.
• Zion is believed to be the first U.S. national park to directly own and maintain accessibility equipment, rather than have it provided and run by an outside nonprofit.
• Extreme Motus is a small, Utah-based company (Payson, UT) that hand-builds all-terrain wheelchairs designed for sand, trail, and water.
• Co-founders Ryan Grassley and Sam Durst have been friends since high school. Sam has cerebral palsy, and the two have spent the last several years taking the chair to nearly every national park in Utah.

The Story

Ryan Grassley and Sam Durst met in high school and have been close friends for roughly 30 years. Sam was born with cerebral palsy, and for most of that friendship, standard wheelchairs kept him off the kinds of trails, beaches, and backcountry roads that Ryan wanted to explore with him. That changed when the two discovered all-terrain wheelchair technology, which eventually led Ryan to co-found Extreme Motus — a small Utah company building rugged, three-wheeled chairs on oversized balloon tires.

Since then, Ryan and Sam have taken the chair to nearly every national park in Utah together, filming their adventures along the way. In 2024, they pushed for the chair to be available at state and national parks, testifying at the Utah State Capitol. That effort culminated in July 2025, when a donor working through the nonprofit 2LIV4 funded a chair for Zion National Park — the first of its kind to be owned outright by a U.S. national park rather than provided by an outside nonprofit.

Zion shared the news publicly in August 2026, and the story has since been picked up by regional and national outlets covering accessible travel and outdoor recreation.

Quotable

“We were standing in front of the visitor center telling the rangers how to use the chair, and a family walked by. They had a child who used a wheelchair, and the mom just started crying. It became immediately clear that having that equipment available was 100% the right thing to do.”

Ryan Grassley, Co-founder, Extreme Motus

“It’s been almost two years in the making.” Zion, he noted, is the first national park to be the sole owner of its own accessibility equipment anywhere in the U.S.

Kenny Jardine, Chief Business Development Officer, Extreme Motus — as told to KSL.com

Photos (Free to Use)

Click any photo for the full-resolution download. Credit: Extreme Motus / Ryan Grassley.

More photos are available on request — call or text (801) 683-9191.

Coverage So Far

• KSL.com — Zion becomes first national park to get all-terrain wheelchair for public use
• Popular Science — All-terrain wheelchair debuts at Zion National Park
• ABC4 Utah — ‘Extreme Motus’ all-terrain wheelchair now available to rent at Zion National Park
• WDC TV News — All-terrain wheelchair debuts at Zion National Park
• Zion National Park — official Facebook announcement

About Extreme Motus

Extreme Motus is a Utah-based company that hand-builds all-terrain wheelchairs engineered to handle sand, trail, snow, and water. Co-founded by Ryan Grassley and Sam Durst, the company grew out of the pair’s own six-plus years of adventuring together after Sam’s cerebral palsy diagnosis made standard wheelchairs impractical for the outdoors. Extreme Motus chairs are now in use by individuals, families, and public programs across the U.S. and internationally. Learn more at extrememotus.com.

Media Contact

Ryan Grassley
Co-founder & CMO, Extreme Motus
Phone: (801) 683-9191
Web: extrememotus.com