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alley
thumb|Alley in Sanaa, Yemen An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden.
footpath
thumb|Footpath inside the Kangla Fort, [[Imphal]] thumb|upright|Footpath through the forest in Brastad, Sweden
desire path
travel path created by use, usually representing the shortest or most easily navigated route
towpath
thumb|right|A towpath in use on the Finow Canal in Germany thumb|People towing a vessel in the Netherlands in 1931 thumb|Mules pulling a boat on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal thumb|A roving bridge on the English [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The towpath changes to the other side of the canal but the horse does not have to be unhitched.]] thumb|A towpath cut into the rock beside the Lot (river)|Lot river in southwest France thumb|"Towboats Along the Yotsugi-dōri Canal" from Hiroshige's "[[One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" series, a depiction of a towpath in rural Tokyo, mid-19th cent
sandō
thumb|225 px|The sandō at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto
boardwalk
thumb|Atlantic City, New Jersey boardwalk, as seen from [[Caesars Atlantic City, opened in 1870, as the first U.S. boardwalk. At long, it is also one of the world's longest, busiest, and oldest boardwalks. New Jersey is home to the world's highest concentration of boardwalks.|alt=Many people walking on a boardwalk at the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey]]
walkway
thumb|A canopy walkway at [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England.]] thumb|upright|The SkyWalk main Arcade (architecture)|arcade facing east towards Union Station, [[Toronto, Ontario, Canada]] In American English, walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails.
long-distance trail
long itinerary used for outdoors activities
Portuguese pavement
pavement used for pedestrian areas
linear park
park in an urban or suburban setting that is substantially longer than it is wide
wayfinding
thumb|A man referring to a paper map in Joshua Tree National Park Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.
concourse
thumb|Leeds railway station (2009), a public transport concourse.
mass path
rural track