List of people who have walked across the United States-The Daily Ledger

This is a list of people who have walked across the United States from the east coast to the west coast or vice versa. Walking or running across the United States has long been pursued as a way to bring publicity to social causes.

Max & Zac Prizant

Max and Zac Prizant, 24-year-old identical twins, became the first twins to run across the country upon completion of their 3,000-mile journey from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Brooklyn Bridge to raise money for Covid-19 relief. They started their journey May 21, 2020. The twins crossed the Brooklyn Bridge on New Years Eve of 2020, raising $15,000 for Heart to Heart International's Covid-19 Relief Fund in the process. They conquered myriad obstacles, including: ten charging wild stallions in Dixie Valley, NV; week-long stretches of triple- and single-digit temperatures in Stockton, CA; 800 miles of oncoming traffic along I-80 West, and the incineration of their support vehicle in York, NE (after finding a replacement, the twins completed the last five hundred miles of the journey from Youngstown, OH to Brooklyn, NY by traveling 30+ miles per day from hotel to hotel.) Max and Zac averaged over 26.2 miles on days traveled, covering 62.1 miles (100 km) on their highest volume day through Wyoming's Red Desert. The twins made headlines in Potter, NE and NBC New York. They tracked their journey on Strava.

List of people who have walked across the United States

Isaiah Glen Shields

Isaiah Glen Shields began walking from his home in Provo, Utah, on May 13, 2021. From there he walked to the western-most point of the continental United States, reaching the Pacific Ocean at Cape Alava, in Washington States Olympic Peninsula on August 1, 2021. From there he turned around to walk to the Eastern-most point of the continental United States at the West Quoddy Head light in Lubec, Maine. He reached the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina.

List of people who have walked across the United States

Noah Coughlan

In 2015, Noah Coughlan, 33, of Vacaville, California, became the third person to run across the United States three times, completing a 3,000 mile solo trek from New York City to San Diego in 127 days to raise awareness for rare diseases. He first crossed in 2011, running 2,500 miles from Ocean Beach in San Diego to Jacksonville, Fla., in 132 days on the Run for Research. His second journey covered 3,100 miles from Half Moon Bay, Calif., to Boston in 108 days on the 2013 Run Coast 2 Coast.

List of people who have walked across the United States

Bill Bucklew

Bill Bucklew departed Tybee Island, Georgia, at 8:30 am, November 24, 2017, and arrived at Imperial beach, San Diego, on January 31, 2018, at 12:45 pm. Bucklew appears to have set the record for walking coast to coast (67 days). Bucklew has Parkinson's disease and walked an average of 1.5 marathons per day, every day without a break. Bucklew was real-time trackable throughout his walk via Google location sharing and had different people walking with him in each state. Bucklew raised over $120,000 for the Michael J. Fox foundation and is writing a book about the connections he made along the way.

Bradford Lyttle

Bradford Lyttle, an organizer with the Committee for Non-Violent Action, and several others walked from San Francisco to New York City, and then through parts of Europe to Moscow, Russia, from December 1960 until late 1961. The action was called the San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace. Several participants, including Lyttle, walked the entire distance.

Dale James Outhouse, Adele Kushner, Kevin James Shay

These participants of A Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life walked across the United States in 1984 as part of the action that called for global nuclear disarmament and better relations between the U.S. and the then Soviet Union. The march started at Point Conception, Calif., and went through Texas and the Deep South to New York City. Several others, including Andy Rector, walked significant portions across the U.S. and continued in Europe to Moscow, Russia, in 1985.

Ed Fallon, Miriam Kashia, Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Jeffrey Czerwiec, Steve Martin These were the five participants in the Great March for Climate Action who completed every step of the 3,100-mile walk from Los Angeles, California, to Washington, D.C., between March 1 and November 1, 2014. Halfway through the March, Steve Martin left the main body of marchers to walk solo to New York, arriving there on September 21 as an emissary from the Great March for Climate Action to the People's Climate March.