{"id":112179,"date":"2025-08-02T05:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112179\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:32:17","slug":"seattle-tops-new-walkability-ranking-nyc-comes-sixth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112179\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Tops New Walkability Ranking\u2014NYC Comes Sixth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitflop.com\/us\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FitFlop<\/a> has ranked 30 U.S. cities by how easy\u2014and enjoyable\u2014they are to explore on foot, and the Big Apple landed in sixth place. The surprise winner? Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>FitFlop\u2019s first-ever Walkability Index considered five metrics\u2014distance, walking time, elevation, step count and Walk Score\u2014between each city\u2019s top five attractions. Despite its hills and drizzle, Seattle came out on top with short, scenic routes linking icons like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/seattle\/attractions\/space-needle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Needle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/seattle\/shopping\/pike-place-market\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pike Place Market<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/seattle\/art\/chihuly-garden-and-glass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chihuly Garden and Glass<\/a>, all within a compact 1.4-mile loop.<\/p>\n<p>Right behind Seattle is Jersey City, which might raise some eyebrows, but don\u2019t underestimate it. With sweeping Hudson River views, a sky-high Walk Score (86.6), and a low-effort, high-reward circuit through Liberty State Park, the Liberty Science Center and buzzy downtown blocks, it beat out cities like Boston, D.C. and, yes, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Boston ranked third, thanks to its historic compactness and the red-brick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/boston\/things-to-do\/freedom-trail-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Trail<\/a> that connects the city\u2019s major sites. Washington, D.C., and Newark took fourth and fifth, respectively, offering flat terrain and dense clusters of attractions that are surprisingly walkable, even if they\u2019re not top of mind for most step-counters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, New York\u2019s sixth-place finish came down to logistics. While the city earned the second-highest Walk Score (88), its attractions are simply too spread out. It takes 129 minutes and nearly 14,000 steps to walk between icons like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/attractions\/empire-state-building-manhattan-ny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empire State Building<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/parks\/central-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Park<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/attractions\/9-11-memorial-and-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9\/11 Memorial<\/a>. That\u2019s a long trek, even for New Yorkers who consider walking a sport.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings drop just as America\u2019s appetite for step-friendly sightseeing surges. Searches for \u201cwalking vacation\u201d are up 29% over the last quarter, and \u201cwalkable cities US\u201d rose 21%. Even searches for \u201cwomen\u2019s walking sandals\u201d spiked 49%, suggesting that comfort is now just as important as a good view.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story? If your idea of vacation involves wandering between museums, parks and cafes without ever hailing a cab, it might be time to look beyond Manhattan. Or at least consider crossing the Hudson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report from FitFlop has ranked 30 U.S. cities by how easy\u2014and enjoyable\u2014they are to explore on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11234,405,403,11235,5226,5225,5228,5227,1164,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-112179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-travel","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-transport-travel","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-travel","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114957539580254757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}