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Anchorage AK 99503
Fax: (907) 269-5446
pan@alaska.gov
Activity-Friendly Routes to Everyday Destinations
Our health starts long before we visit a doctor’s office. It begins where we live, work, learn and play. That’s where we find it easier — or harder — to makes choices that affect our health: Can our children walk to school? Can we get to our local park on foot, by bike, or by bus instead of by car?
Connecting everyday destinations with activity friendly routes means that you should be able to safely get to stores, schools, workplaces and other places by walking, biking or bus. Every bit of physical activity adds up each day to help you stay healthy and prevent disease.
Improving safety and health
From 2019 to December of 2020, the State of Alaska Physical Activity and Nutrition program worked with the Vision Zero Anchorage team to connect safe routes for walking and biking with everyday destinations like schools, workplaces, stores and playgrounds. The reports that were published during this partnership are housed on the Municipality of Anchorage website.
Learn more
Read components of the Community Guide:
Learn about the Surgeon General’s Step It Up! (2015)
Contact
For more information about the Physical Activity and Nutrition program’s efforts to connect everyday destinations with activity-friendly routes, please email pan@alaska.gov.
Webpage updated January 2022