Audio tours for runners and walkers

Know the streets you run.

Stories about the places you pass, each one starting as you reach it. Every fact checked. Your music keeps playing in between.

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Sheep Meadow · mile 5.6 of The Loop: Central Park

At mile 5.6 of The Loop you reach Sheep Meadow. It was planned as a parade ground, but Olmsted and Vaux opposed military use, so it became a sheep pasture. That's one of 16 stories on the run.

Sheep Meadow in Central Park on a spring day 5.6 MI 5.6mi · Sheep Meadow
The Stride Stories app playing the Sheep Meadow story, with its photo and words
Photo: unknown author, public domain
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How it works

One run, start to finish

0.0mi · Start
The app at the start of a run: distance, pace, a turn arrow and the next story

Press start, pocket the phone

Turns come before you need them. Tours download first, so no signal is fine.

0.1mi · First story
A story playing at Heckscher Playground, its words highlighted as they are spoken

Each story starts at its place

Your music dips, the story plays, the music comes back. The words follow along if you look.

6.0mi · Finish
The finish screen with the New York passport stamp and the run’s miles, stories and minutes

Finish and earn the stamp

Run it. Learn it. Earn the stamp. Every city has its own.

Real places, real stories

The record set on that corner. The bridge that nearly wasn't built.

Photos from Wikimedia Commons. Tower Bridge: Fuzzypiggy, CC BY-SA 3.0; The Golden Gate Bridge: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Pond, Central Park: Bryan Schorn, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Colosseum: FeaturedPics, CC BY-SA 4.0; Shibuya Crossing: David Kernan, CC BY 4.0; Buckingham Fountain: H. Michael Miley from Schaumburg, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0; The Manhattan Bridge: Kidfly182, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Arc de Triomphe: ZeusUpsistos, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Made for moving

On every tour

Timed to your pace
Set your running or walking pace and each story starts as you reach its place.
Every fact checked
Stories are researched and independently fact-checked against sources. When something is a legend, we say so.
Your music stays on
Music drops down while a story plays and comes back after. Every tour has a soundtrack you can open in Spotify.
Works offline
A tour downloads to your phone before you start, so it plays without a connection.
Real photos, credited
Every place photo is a real photo, with the photographer named. No made-up pictures of real places.
Location only on tour
"While Using the App" is all it needs, and location stops the moment you end the tour.

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Stride Stories is on iPhone, with tours in New York, London, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo and more.

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