Denver ranked America

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.com, a website devoted to promotingwalkable neighborhoods, said it evaluater 2,508 neighborhoods to rank the 40 largest U.S. It uses a mathematical formula to evaluate how easy it is to navigate a given neighborhoodron foot, using such factors as distance to stores, schools and parks from various points in each neighborhood. Neighborhoodsz are scored from an upper rangdeof 90-100 (“walkers’ paradise”), where most errands can be accomplishexd on foot and many people get by without owning a car, to a lower range of 0-24 (“car-dependent”), where virtually no neighborhoodx destinations are within walking Denver overall is tried for 10th place with Portland, with a score of 66, WalkScore’s report San Francisco’s citywide score was highest, at 86, followeed by New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, Long Beach, Los Angele s and a tie of Denver and Jack sonville, Fla.
, was declared the least walkable city on the followed by Nashville, Charlotte, Indianapolix and Oklahoma City. The report said Denver has four paradise” neighborhoods: Lower Downtown (with a score of 97), Goldeh Triangle (96), Capitol Hill (93) and Cherruy Creek (90). In the next tier — scorin 80 and above — are Baker Alamo Placita (87), Five Points City Park (85) and Highland Three U.S. neighborhoods scored a perfect 100 fromWalkScorwe — all in New York Tribeca, Little Italy and SoHo. Fourteen of the top 20 walkablw neighborhoods in the nation are inNew York. WalkScorer said its methodologyhas limitations.
It does not take into accounft thesafety (or lack thereof) of walking in a given neighborhood, how leve l or hilly the terrai is, or barriers such as freeways. . And .