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Downtown Provo Gyms — Optimal Walking Route

Downtown Provo's Center Street blocks — convention center, murals, and monuments. Exact shortest walking order on real path-network distances (BRouter), solved with Held–Karp and confirmed by exhaustive brute force. Every gym within ~1 km is plotted in red for context — zoom out to see them all.

Gyms routed
10
+149 plotted, not routed
Loop
2.29 km
≈ 28 min @ 3 mph
Line
1.90 km
≈ 24 min, saves 393 m
Search rank
#2
BYU-area route search, 2026-07-09
Gyms / hour
20 / 10
30 / 60-min spawn cycles — a gym counts once per cycle (loop)
Avg leg
211 m
between consecutive gyms (line)
Legs
48–358 m
shortest · longest (line)
Climb
↑13 · ↓6 m
elevation gain / loss along the line

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    Loop or line? The loop returns to the start; start at any gym — numbering is anchored at Community Congregational Church for reference. The line runs Super Mario Art → Sodalicious and saves 393 m over the loop.

    Verified. Every leg of this route was checked against the actual sidewalk-and-plaza network: distances match the drawn paths, and all crossings of University Avenue, Center Street, and Freedom Boulevard land on signals or marked crosswalks. One quirk to know: The New Nuskin gym sits at the south plaza entrance of the Nu Skin headquarters building, so the route approaches it from the 100 South side — you can't cut through from Center Street, and the extra walking there is real, not a routing error.

    Origin. Found as rank #2 in the BYU-area route search: closed loops hitting 7+ gyms in a 30-minute walk, searched across a 3 km radius around campus.

    Method. Distances are the per-pair minimum of BRouter's hiking-mountain and shortest profiles plus a metric-closure pass. Gym data: PokeScrapper capture through 2026-07-07. Buildings and paths: OpenStreetMap.