To create a walking tour, you need to research to find people, places, or things related to your walking tour theme. A previous intern at WORI began to draft several walking tours related to the Park. She had researched the community a little. I used her research and did my own research to find people, places, and things related to the two walking tour themes in Seneca Falls, NY and Waterloo, NY. Once you have the people, places, or things you’d like to talk about on the walking tour, you need to find the geographic locations. This sounds easy, but it can be tricky. The stops need to be close together for people to walk to. The stops also must represent the people, places, or things that you're discussing at the stop. I used ArcGIS mapping software to track each geographic location of the walking tours. I have included a picture of an early draft of the walking tour below. This layout was changed because the locations were spread out a little too far. Once you have the research done and the location of the stop decided upon you need to write an informational blurb about the person, place, or things for each stop. Each stop’s blurb should be 1-3 paragraphs long. You want people to learn something, but you want to keep it short enough, so they read the whole blurb. Many visitors don't have the time to read a chapter at each stop. Each walking tour is about an hour long between walking to the stops, reading the material, and making their way back to their car.