Plan Your Walk
Your walk, today vs. with the paths.
Pick where you're starting and where you're going. See how long the walk takes now, how much of it is along busy roads, and what changes with the five paths.
Whitefield ball field to Wilmington High School: 3 minutes faster, and 16 fewer minutes walking along busy roads.
Estimates for comparing, not directions. Walks follow streets but don't know where sidewalks or shortcuts are. How these walks are figured out.
How these walks are figured out
Real streets, real distances.
Every walk follows Wilmington's actual streets from OpenStreetMap. The “with the paths” version adds the five proposed paths, joined to the streets wherever they meet.
“Today” is simply the shortest walk, because that's what people do now, even when it means walking along Main Street or Route 62.
“With the paths” is the walk most people would pick once the paths exist: the shortest one, but with a stretch along a busy road counting as 1.5 times as long. People will go a little out of their way to walk on a path instead of beside traffic, so sometimes this walk is a bit longer, but calmer.
One honest limit: these walks follow streets, but they don't know which streets have sidewalks (many don't, which is the whole problem), and they skip the dirt shortcuts and parking-lot cut-throughs people already use. So if you know a quicker way, that's exactly the kind of local knowledge the paths should build on.
Times use the same pace as the rest of the site, about 20 minutes per mile. These are estimates for comparing, not exact directions.
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