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How long to get home on foot?

When the roads stop working, the honest question is how many hours — or days — it takes to cover the distance between where you are and where you need to be. This works it out for walking, cycling or driving, adjusted for your load, the terrain, your condition and gridlock, so your get-home bag and plan match reality instead of hope.

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Your inputs

The trip
Straight-line × ~1.3 for real roads/paths.
Conditions
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Time to home

Notes

People overestimate how far they can walk in a day. A fit adult with a light pack makes ~3 mph on flat ground, but a loaded pack, hills, heat, blisters and stopping to navigate or avoid people cut that hard — and darkness roughly halves safe pace. Plan on 8–10 walking hours a day, not 24; you have to sleep, eat, and treat feet. A vehicle is only faster while the roads flow — model gridlock honestly, because the whole point of a get-home plan is the day traffic doesn't move. Match your bag to the days this shows, not the miles.