Walking Groups for Seniors

63walks scheduled38.5Msteps walked
United States193
Italy159
United Kingdom86
France83
India80
Türkiye58
Germany53
Hungary49
Netherlands48
Russia46
Canada44
Poland35
Ukraine34
Romania32
Spain29
Brazil24
Belgium22
Portugal21
Saudi Arabia20
Czechia15
Australia11
Tunisia11

Find friendly walking groups and companions over 50 near you. Steady pace, familiar routes, and good company, on your schedule.

Older adults walking together in a local park

What Walkers Are Saying

Real reviews from walkers, on the app stores and right here on the web.

Google Play

Looking forward to finding some local walks in my city, cool idea.

Google Play review

Android user

Google Play

I really like the idea. Seems like I'm the first walker in my city, but the concept is exactly what I wanted.

Google Play review

Bucharest

Google Play

This app helped me leave the house and touch some grass, for real for real.

Google Play review

Android user

Not just tracking steps, A walking community

Walk With Me is your all-in-one walking app that lets you find walkers in your area and walk together.

  • Step and distance count
  • Your route drawn on a map
  • Calories burned
  • Walking time and pace
  • Every walk kept in your history
  • A global leaderboard you can climb
  • Your friends' step counts, day by day
  • Walkers near you on a live map
  • Join or host a walk in a tap
  • Groups, challenges and ranked countries

A walking group that moves at your pace, not someone else's

Walking later in life comes down to the right pace and a little reassurance. The app is set up for both.

A relaxed social walk with a small group joined
A relaxed social walk with a small group joined

A pace that actually fits

Nobody enjoys a group that walks too fast to talk. Every walk in the app is planned at a steady, moderate pace, and casual walks keep it looser still: meet up, walk together, no set route and nobody racing ahead. You can see the purpose, the route and the length before you ask to join, so a relaxed stroll never gets confused with a climb up a hill. It means the group you pick is genuinely one you can keep up with, and comfortably chat through, rather than one you spend the whole time trailing behind.

See everything the free app does
The still walking check-in on a longer group walk
The still walking check-in on a longer group walk

Familiar faces, week after week

Walking alone grows less appealing as the years add up, and a group answers that. Joining is approval based by default, so the group is made of people the host chose, and a walk that repeats each week brings the same faces back until everyone knows your name. On longer walks the host gets a check-in with a grace window, so the walk's live pin stays up while the group is still out and comes down once everyone has gone home. The check-in only keeps the walk going or ends it and tells nobody else; the company is what the people beside you bring.

Step history with monthly totals
Step history with monthly totals

Keep a gentle streak going

Progress at any age is really just showing up often enough, and the app keeps a faithful record of it. Your steps roll into daily, weekly and monthly views, and your step and rank history live on your profile, so you can look back across months and see a steady line rather than a single day. There is no pressure to chase big numbers here, a modest daily walk kept up is its own reward. Watching that history grow, slowly and reliably, is a surprisingly good reason to head out one more time.

Get Walking in 3 Simple Steps

From download to your first group walk in minutes.

Walk Now or Later, Decide Who Joins

Walk Now or Later, Decide Who Joins
Walk Now or Later, Decide Who Joins
01

Plan the Route

Plan the Route
Plan the Route
02

Start Walking

Start Walking
Start Walking
03

More from Walk With Me

Track Every Step, Together

A step counter and walk tracker in the app logs every walk you take, on your own or with the group.

Track Every Step, Together

Built on Trust, Safety, and Inclusion

Your safety and comfort are at the heart of everything we build.

Inclusive Communities

  • Gender preference options
  • LGBTQ+ safe spaces
  • All fitness levels welcome
  • Blocking features

Safety First

  • Join request vetting
  • Private walk options
  • Automatic content checks
  • Walk history accountability

Zero Barriers

  • Free to use
  • No equipment needed
  • Works anywhere
  • All ages welcome

How to find a gentle walking group close to home

A senior walking group is a regular walk for older adults, at a pace where everyone can talk, on a route close to home. Many meet at the same time each week, so the walk becomes a standing date as much as exercise.

Practical worries often decide whether a walk happens: a knee that wants a rest halfway, or not knowing where the nearest toilet is. A host can plan around both, with up to five stops on the route and the meeting point, start and finish set as separate places, so a walk can begin at a café and end at a bus stop. If you'd rather not plan a route at all, a casual walk means you simply meet and walk together. Wherever you are, the public toilets layer on the map shows the ten nearest within about 1.5 km of you, whether each one is accessible, its opening hours where they're known, and a walking route to it.

You also don't need a big number for walking to count. A 2022 analysis of 15 studies led by Amanda Paluch found that for adults over 60, the lower risk of early death linked to daily steps leveled off at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day, compared with 8,000 to 10,000 for younger adults. It shows a pattern across large groups, not a target for any one person. If you have a heart, lung or joint condition, check with your doctor before you add much distance.

Hosting your own walk is often the easiest way in, because you choose the place, the time and the length. Give it a plain title that says who it's for and how gentle it is, set a small participant limit, and open each person's profile before you accept them; it shows how many walks they've done. After a few weeks the regulars can become friends, and a walk set to Friends is seen only by them.

Walk With Me is free on iPhone and Android. Joining and hosting walks, the toilet and water fountain map layers, step counting and the rankings are all free, with ads. Premium removes the ads and lets a walk repeat every week on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

Not with a filter, because the app has no age filter. Hosts can say in the title who a walk is for, and you can post your own, such as a gentle Thursday loop for over-60s, so the people who want that walk can find it.

Yes. Every walk is planned at a moderate pace, and the app shows the distance, the expected time and the incline, worked out from the route. Start with a short, flat one; if you host, you choose the route yourself.

Yes. On the free plan you post each week's walk yourself and can plan up to 90 days ahead. Premium lets a walk repeat daily, weekly or monthly on its own.

Not once it's set up. You need an iPhone or an Android phone, and day to day you find a walk on the map, ask to join and meet up. When you first open the app it asks what you're there for and shapes itself around your answer.

Not through the app. It has no emergency button and doesn't share your location with family. On longer walks the host gets a check-in asking whether the walk is still going, but it doesn't notify anyone else, so tell someone your plans the usual way.

No. Finding, joining and hosting walks are free, and the free plan shows ads. Premium removes the ads and adds extras such as repeating walks.