Sometimes it seems that city planners have no idea what people really need. This is how “folk trails” are obtained – paths trodden in the lawn that locals use instead of neat and beautiful, but completely useless asphalt paths. And these paths can be very interesting to watch – there is even a whole community on Reddit dedicated to “the paths that people prefer, not the ones that are created for them.”
1. “The world’s best” folk trail “! For 22 years, this man paved the way through the mountain to reduce the distance from his village to the nearest hospital from 70 to 1 kilometer”
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2. “My cat passed away last night. Here are his paths.”
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3. “When a Canadian noticed that the locals were taking shortcuts through his yard, instead of building a fence, he paved a path.”
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4. “Trail of the 17-year-old cat”
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5. “After our dog died, we turned his ‘folk trail’ into an eternal trail”
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6. “Whole generations of rabbits made the perfect hole in my neighbor’s fence.”
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7. The paths at Ohio State University were paved based on “folk trails” paved by students.
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8. “Found this beautiful trail earlier this year”
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9. “Found a nice trail in Dorset”
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10. “Dog trail in the local park. Be aware that on a sunny day the pavement can be too hot for paws”
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11. “Ants in my garage built a bridge over a glue trap.”
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12. “It took 4 years”
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13. UX vs. Design
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14. Endless way
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15. “In a student dormitory. I once tried to pass as planned for a change. Too long.”
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16. A little about superstitions
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17. Folk stairs
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18. “My girlfriend and I are in a long distance relationship and this is where I go when I’m on the phone with her every night.”
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19. “My dog’s folk trail is filled with flower petals. Looks beautiful!”
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20. “The paths in this college were laid after observing for a year where folk trails form.”
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21. “Honestly, I don’t know what else they expected”
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22. Interesting fact: the Dutch call such trodden paths “elephant paths”
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23. Folk trail one step long
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24. The paths laid by the moorhen on the way to their nest and back
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25. “The sidewalks in my school yard are not symmetrical because they were installed where the grass was trampled”
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26. A walkway so bad that no one wants to use it.
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27. “At my college, they put turf on the path and put up a sign “Do not walk on the grass.” The students obeyed and paved the path next to the turf.”
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28. “Google recognizes folk trails on our campus”
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29. Very popular Russian trail
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30. “People laid a folk pentagram inside a large roundabout”
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Source: – translated specially for fishki.net
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