If you make a regular habit of urban walking like I do, you may have heard of Walk Score. This website and app—it’s especially popular with home-shoppers and real-estate pros—offers a fun and useful tool that rates the walkability of cities and neighborhoods. I love it and the whole healthy-living philosophy that’s behind it.

Walk Score’s latest interesting report compares the walkability of North America’s top ski towns.

"We pulled the Walk Score for each ski town based on an intersection in the middle/walkable part of each village," she says, "then compared each to capture the most walkable." Thus, the Walk Score reflects a single geographical point rather than a rating of an entire city.

Jocelyn goes on to point out, "This is not an official walkable ranking, but a measure of highly walkable ski areas. Many resorts on the East Coast such as Stowe and Killington, Vt., had a relatively low Walk Score for the entire town. We chose ski towns that had a minimum Walk Score of 70 and then found the most walkable point in each town's center." Ah, good to know.

One other interesting tidbit: the Walk Score algorithm does not consider aesthetics. Jocelyn says, "We measure how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking."

Walk Score is continually upgrading their algorithms, and has supplemented Walk Score with Bike Score, Transit Score, apartment search enhancements and more. Your upgrade suggestions are always welcome.

What are your favorite ski towns? Did they make the Walk Score list?