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Mark Louisiana Walking Milestones

With its price (free) and difficulty level (not) walking tops most people’s list of fitness programs. Why not take it a step further and add a little motivation by adding Louisiana milestones to tracking your progress?

 

Using the average person’s stride length of approximately 2.5 feet, the chart below shows how many steps it’ll take you to walk between various spots in Louisiana and even from our capital city to France. When you make it all the way to Paris – it’ll take a while – you should treat yourself to dinner at a French restaurant!

 

Walk the maximum east–west “width” of Louisiana

300 miles or
600,000 steps

Walk the maximum north–south “length” of Louisiana

275 miles or
550,000 steps

Walk from the Texas border to the Mississippi border along I-10

220 miles or
440,000 steps

Walk the coast of Louisiana from the Sabine to Pearl Rivers

397 miles or
794,000 steps

Walk from Baton Rouge to Lake Charles

123 miles or
246,000 steps

Walk from Lake Charles to Shreveport

198 miles or
396,000 steps

Walk from Shreveport to Monroe

98 miles or
196,000 steps

Walk from Monroe to Alexandria

99 miles or
198,000 steps

Walk from Alexandria to Baton Rouge

110 miles or
220,000 steps

Walk from Baton Rouge to New Orleans

70 miles or
140,000 steps

Walk from Baton Rouge to Washington, D.C.

1,100 miles or
2,200,000 steps

Walk from Baton Rouge to New York City

1,340 miles or
2,680,000 steps

Walk from Baton Rouge to Paris, France

4,960 miles or
9,920,000 steps

(Average stride = 2.5 feet.  2,000 steps = 1 mile. 10,000 steps ≈ 5 miles)

 

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