Participate in Walk and Bike to School Day and utilize Waukee's 23 miles of trails to get to school on Oct. 7. Walk or bike to promote healthy habits and a cleaner environment. Make sure to use walkways and crosswalk signals along your way, while also looking both ways before crossing a road.
The whole community benefits from efforts to enable and encourage more children to walk or bicycle to school safely.
Walk and Bike to School Day events connect with many issues that communities care about, like creating safer and more walkable routes to school; building a sense of community or school spirit; and inspiring families to use their feet for the school commute more often.
The Partnership for a Walkable America founded Walk to School Day in the United States in 1997 and began with events in two cities: Chicago and Los Angeles. Canada and Great Britain already had Walk to School events in place. In 2000, Canada, the United Kingdom and the U.S. joined together to create International Walk to School Day. Over 2.5 million walkers were estimated to have participated.