Good morning, everyone! Adding in 37 minutes. I'm now walking 1.5 miles a day to get Disney-ready. Has anyone ever tracked how much they walk in a day at the parks? Maybe we've got someone at the parks who's tracking? I'm wondering how I need to take this!
I guess it depends on how you tour.
Here's a list of estimated walking distances within WDW. And if you'll be driving to parks anytime soon, remember that the trams aren't running in the parking lots. (We generally use Disney transport, but this time, with the pandemic, we drove to MK and AK.)
We were park hopping, usually starting with a walk from Swan to DHS (.75 miles), then walking around DHS (at least a mile), then a walk back (.75 miles). One day we then went to Epcot for the evening, walking over (.5 miles), walking around World Showcase (1.2 miles), then walking back to Swan (.5 miles). So that day was at least 4.7 miles. On another day, we didn't walk all around the World Showcase, but we walked from IG to the front entrance to ride Spaceship Earth, and that walk round-trip was approximately 1.4 miles just within the park (not counting side trips into the Seas, the Land, and Imagination pavilions).
Another day was walking to DHS (.75 miles), walking around DHS (1 mile), boat back to Swan. Then back to DHS in the car to make our Rise of the Resistance boarding group (1 mile walking through parking lot, through the park to Rise, then back to the car). Then off to the MK (.5 miles through parking lot and TTC), around MK (@1.5 miles), back to front gate from TTA and Buzz (.4 miles), then back through TTC and parking lot (.5 miles). So that day was probably over 5 miles--even though we took the boat back to Swan one way.
We usually take midday breaks (it was so HOT) and I changed pairs of shoes during those breaks to help my poor feet.