“The Long Walk” usually refers to Stephen King’s dystopian novel (and the 2025 film), where a group of teenage boys must walk nonstop at a set speed until only one survives.

In the story’s rules , there is technically no fixed distance or finish line : the walk ends only when everyone but one has died, so its “length” is measured in survival, not miles. Fans have tried mapping the implied route from the book onto real U.S. roads, and one popular reconstruction puts Garraty’s path at roughly 310 miles or about 500 km , though this is an estimate based on textual clues rather than an official number.

If you meant a different “Long Walk” (for example, the historical Long Walk of the Navajo , which was about 300 miles over 18 days), or a specific race/event with that name, tell me which one and I can give you that distance instead.