WALK Friendly Ontario was a recognition program that encouraged municipalities to create and improve spaces and places to walk by awarding Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum designations.

Using our comprehensive framework of indicators for walkability, municipalities could benchmark their current status and measure progress over time.

The program gave walking a prominent profile in community planning and design, and encouraged municipal governments to set targets for improvements.

Check out our Showcase of highlights from communities that achieved a WALK Friendly Community designation between 2013 and 2015.