Check this out! You can discover just how “walkable” a neighborhood in Stratford CT is without ever having to leave your house. Here is a map that maps the area around Nichols Elementary School, my neighborhood, and gives all of the points of interest that you may want to walk to.

This neighborhood in Stratford gets a walk score of 60 out of 100 points making it “somewhat walkable”. You can see how far away the grocery store and other convenience stores are. It show parks, libraries, and fitness clubs too. Pretty much everything is included here. At least everything that I can think of anyway. This tool seems pretty accurate.

The only drawback is that walk distances are calculated in a “as straight as the crow” flyes format. These distances are the shortest distances between two points and not the actual walking route.  As great as this tool is for helping you discover a neighborhood in Stratford CT it has its drawbacks. Walkscore.com is working on fixing this to make the walking distances more accurate.