--- title: "Ambleside, Edmonton walkability score: 50/100 · How Walkable" description: "Ambleside in Edmonton scores 50/100 for walkability (Somewhat Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Edmonton." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/ambleside updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Canada](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada) 3. [Edmonton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton) 4. Ambleside # How walkable is Ambleside, Edmonton? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Ambleside has a walkability score of 50 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 14th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Edmonton, with 1 other, which scores 67 as a whole. 50 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable Some errands can be accomplished on foot. * #14 of 20 tied, in Edmonton * 67 Edmonton overall * 63 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=53.42990&lon=-113.59934&q=Ambleside%2C%20Edmonton) ## What's within walking distance 249 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Ambleside. The nearest grocery is about 12 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping and parks. It is weakest for books & libraries. ### Groceries 1.9 of 3 points * Safeway, 12 min * Walmart, 20 min * M&M Food Market, 27 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.1 of 3 points * KokoCup, 5 min * Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt, 11 min * Japonais Windermere, 11 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Radicaln, 2 min * Apex Apparel, 3 min * Brassy Beehive, 4 min ### Coffee 1.1 of 2 points * Starbucks, 11 min * KB and Co, 14 min * Second Cup, 15 min ### Banks 0.7 of 1 point * Scotiabank, 11 min * CIBC Branch with ATM, 15 min * CIBC, 15 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Woodall Park, 26 min * Constable Dan Woodall Park, 30 min ### Schools 0.7 of 1 point * Jumpstart Learning Academy - Windermere, 10 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.4 of 1 point * Windermere Theatre Edmonton, 16 min * Cineplex, 16 min Measured from the mapped centre of Ambleside, Edmonton at 53.4299, -113.5993. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 48 street intersections per km², and blocks average 130 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 3%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests. ## Walkability across Ambleside, Edmonton ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Ambleside. 25% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 23, is 1 km to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/canada/edmonton/ambleside.svg?v=b77a7be47654) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Ambleside, Edmonton. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Edmonton | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Duggan](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#duggan) | 7.8 km | 53 | | [Aldergrove](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#aldergrove) | 10.1 km | 45 | | [Allendale](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/allendale) | 10.2 km | 71 | | [Crestwood](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#crestwood) | 11.8 km | 63 | | [Rossdale](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#rossdale) | 13.4 km | 51 | | [Bonnie Doon](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/bonnie-doon) | 13.7 km | 76 | | [Downtown Edmonton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#downtown-edmonton) | 14.7 km | 93 | | [Boyle Street](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods#boyle-street) | 15.5 km | 81 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Edmonton ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/edmonton/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Ambleside, Edmonton ### Is Ambleside walkable? Partly. Ambleside in Edmonton has a walkability score of 50 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. ### Is Ambleside more walkable than the rest of Edmonton? Ambleside is less walkable than Edmonton as a whole: it scores 50, against 67 for the 5 km around Edmonton's centre. It is the joint 14th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Edmonton, with 1 other on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Edmonton? Of the 20 Edmonton neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Edmonton (93), Alberta Avenue (88) and Boyle Street (81). ### How is the walkability score of Ambleside calculated? The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Ambleside it is the average of 52 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score. This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Ambleside, Edmonton?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.