Walk
This Bay

Estimate your walk to neighborhood essentials

Drop a pin anywhere from Marin County through San Francisco and out to Alameda, and see how long it really takes to walk to the nine things a neighborhood needs: primary healthcare, a pharmacy, food retail, a school, a park, a library, a civic center, a sports facility and somewhere cultural. Switch the filter and you get restaurants, coffee, bars, retail, services or the nearest transit stops instead.

Routes follow real streets and footpaths rather than straight-line distance, which is why a clinic 0.7 miles away can be a 57-minute walk when there's no pedestrian crossing in between.

Free, no account, and it runs without a server.

About Walk This Bay

Walk This Bay was created by Michael Angeles to estimate how long it takes to walk to points of interest from locations in the SF Bay Area. The maps cover the Bay from Marin to Alameda.

Every line is a route someone could actually walk. It follows real streets and footpaths, routed in your browser over an OpenStreetMap network that ships with the page. If a route can't be found, it doesn't draw anything.

The shaded zones are a rougher thing. They're a distance estimate sampled on a grid, not a routed path, so treat the bands as approximate. The lines and the times attached to them are the precise part.

Places come from Foursquare Open Source Places, refreshed monthly. Anything Foursquare records as closed gets dropped when the data is rebuilt, along with anything nobody has verified since 2024 and anything with neither a phone number nor a website.

None of that promises a place is still open. Foursquare only learns a business closed when somebody tells it, so a shop that shut last month can sit here looking perfectly current until the record catches up, and the times you see are a snapshot of a source that goes stale between rebuilds. If the trip matters, ring ahead. When you do find one that's gone, Placemaker is where it gets fixed, and it drops out of the next build.

The streets you walk on, and the map underneath them, are OpenStreetMap, served as tiles by OpenFreeMap in the OpenMapTiles schema. Transit stop locations come from 511 SF Bay, and address search is by Nominatim. Foursquare's places are Apache-2.0, and their notice and the list of changes made here travel with them.