Walk Dallas and clear what you can
Dallas was designed around the car, and walking it is honest work. The fog does not care how far you drove.
Be honest: this is a hard city on foot
Dallas covers roughly 340 square miles. The freeway loops, I-30, I-35E, US-75 and the rest, cut the city into pieces, and many arterials have six lanes and no shade. Blocks in the outer neighbourhoods are long, crossings are far apart, and in a lot of places the pavement simply stops. This is not a city where you casually clear a district on a Sunday.
Which is exactly why the map is interesting here. In Copenhagen a good afternoon fills a chunk. In Dallas a good afternoon fills a thread, and you can see every compromise you made to get it. The satisfaction is different: not area, but reach. Long thin lines that show you actually got somewhere under your own power in a place that assumed you would not.
The parts that actually work
Downtown is compact and gridded, and it is walkable if you accept the surface car parks. Main Street through Deep Ellum is a real pedestrian corridor with bars and murals running east. Klyde Warren Park decks over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway and stitches downtown to Uptown, which is the single best piece of pedestrian infrastructure the city has built.
North of that, Uptown around McKinney Avenue is dense enough to walk properly. The Katy Trail runs about three and a half miles from just north of downtown up through Uptown and Knox-Henderson to Mockingbird, on old rail line, and it is the spine of any serious walking day here. On the map it clears a clean diagonal cutting across the street grid.
South and east, Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff is a genuine walkable pocket, reached over the Jefferson Boulevard viaduct or the Ronald Kirk pedestrian bridge next to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. White Rock Lake, further northeast, has a loop trail of around nine miles that fills in as a ring.
A route worth doing: start at Klyde Warren Park, walk north up the Katy Trail to Knox Street, come back down McKinney through Uptown, cross into downtown, then out east along Main into Deep Ellum. Eight or nine miles, and it clears the most connected walkable ground in the city in one go.
Heat is the real season limit
From June through September, Dallas afternoons run past 100 degrees for weeks at a time, with humidity on top. That is not walking weather, it is a genuine hazard, and the sensible plan is dawn or after dark. October through April is pleasant and often perfect. The map does not expire, so a summer spent indoors costs you nothing you already cleared.
Winter is mild with occasional ice storms that shut everything for a couple of days. Spring brings storms. The good months are long.
How FOG behaves in Dallas
The downtown core has enough tall buildings around Main and Elm to make a GPS trace wander a little, but Dallas is low and open almost everywhere else and the signal is clean. FOG keeps revealing with the app closed and the screen off, so the walk from a distant car park to an office counts without you doing anything.
Dallas gets a city percentage, and it will be small for a long time. That is the truthful reading of a 340 square mile city walked on foot. Ranks climb with area covered, from Wanderer up to Voyager, and in a place this spread out each step up is earned.
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Questions people actually ask
Is Dallas actually walkable?
In pockets. Downtown, Deep Ellum, Uptown, Bishop Arts and the Katy Trail corridor all work well on foot. The space between them is built for cars and is a long, exposed walk.
Does the Katy Trail count?
Yes. FOG reveals wherever you physically walk, run or ride, and the Katy Trail clears as a diagonal line across the grid.
Will driving clear the map?
FOG is for walking, running and riding. The point is the ground you covered yourself, which in Dallas is what makes the map worth looking at.
What does it cost?
Free to explore. One purchase of 5.99 USD unlocks unlimited ranks, every character and history import. There is no subscription.
Can I import old walks?
Yes, with the paid unlock. It reads Google Timeline exports and GPX files, so years of Dallas walking can go straight onto the map.
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