Seven of them. 2 countries. No list anywhere until now.
Cat walks around the world.
A cat walk is a route through a neighbourhood, past cats whose people have put them in a window, a catio or a front garden for the afternoon. You walk. They sit. Everybody is delighted.
It began in Minneapolis in 2017. John Edwards had been on a walking tour that pointed at buildings and decided his neighbourhood had something better to point at. He mapped a route past a few cat households. Thirty people came.
The 2025 one drew over five hundred, including a woman in a t-shirt reading “I traveled 2000 miles to see your cats”. There are now seven of these on two continents, five founded in the last two years, and none of them knew about each other. So here they all are.
Happening next
Whiskers & Windows🇺🇸 Baltimore · 29 August 2026All of them
Wedge LIVE! Cat Tour
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · June · since 2017
The first one. Thirty people in 2017, thousands now, and the reason every other walk on this page exists.
Fernwood Cat Walk
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · late May
Seven and a half kilometres of Victoria, twenty-nine stops, thirty-nine cats, and a vote at the end.
Sunnyside Cat Walk
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States · spring and late summer · since 2025
Two neighbours, one walkabout, a viral TikTok, and second place for Best Tour in the whole of Portland.
Cat Walk Portland
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States · August
A free window-cat stroll from For Paws PDX, run in memory of a cat called Pickles.
Lincoln Square Cat Tour
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States · August
Chicago’s first, and the only one that comes with a cinema screening attached.
Whiskers & Windows
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States · late August
The only one with a double decker bus, and the only one you can enter your own cat into.
Brighton Heights Cat Tour
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · August
Pittsburgh’s first, starting from a park in Brighton Heights.
A cat walk is one afternoon a year.
Chonk Finder is the other three hundred and sixty four days. Photograph a cat you meet and it becomes a trading card with a name, a rarity and two attacks. Find the same cat four times, with other people, and it becomes a Chonk.
Take it on one of these walks and every cat on the route is a card. Take it down your own street and so is every cat there.
Free, and no sign-up.
Running one we have missed?
Tell us and it goes up, with a link straight to you. If you would like proper printed cards for the cats on your route, free, for people to take home, we can do that too. hello@chonkfinder.app