How beautiful!

We have one too, created by the dogs between the deck and the shop ramp; they just ignore the door!

Same

Designed by people more focused on some aesthetic vision, rather than thinking of the people who would use it

That one took a while to form.

It's crappy paving. You can tell they didn't want to. But it's a win!

Cats always know the way.

Speed bumps on a BIKE PATH instead of the ROAD where they should be. Typical idiocy.

Probably even worse for cyclists and people with strollers/trams

Everyone needs fries.

I have one of those in my neighborhood too. The sidewalk is either flooded or slick and muddy. Everyone goes around, now the desire path is slick and muddy

Anyone else see a pentagram on the left? Just me?

What am I seeing here?

What sort of roundabout from hell is that? I haven't seen a roundabout looking that difficult since I got sheet music to Yes.

I love this setting. I've never been there, but just this photo of those woods make me feel so peaceful.

Now they will end up with two of them

I would push through those every single day until they paved it.

I’m betting there’s a regulation limiting how steep a public path can be, and the dogleg is needed to adhere to it.

Wow, that's more than a desire path on the left. It's a two-lane-high-traffic-pave-it-already path.

That’s pretty random. I wonder if there was a tree there.

That's where all the good smells are!

Except for graffiti a-holes.

The 7 stages of desire path resistance are shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and acceptance.

Were they drunk when they paved this!?

Zoom in they are on the path on the left side.

That one looks like it was deliberately built.

Why is there even a gate there?

"The length of any side of triangle will always be less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides." - Euclid

That's probably cyclists. Those barriers are designed to slow us down. But it's not very useful if you can just go around

That path is still under the sign.

Or elderly etc need help with stairs...

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That's not a desire path that's a trying to get around the badly parked lorry path.

That one looks like it was made by bicycles.

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And that signage was cheaper or more efficient than fixing the wobbly stairs in what way?

Why is it there and not cutting the corner wider (more to the left)?

The shortest distance between two points…

Is that a UFO desire path in the sky???

Desire gulch.

Even our little rat friends have desires.

Life is short

Mixed messages,

Has gravel, looks legit. Screenshot...01-png.jpg

Erosion is a serious thing in high mountains. Keeping the grass mat intact prevents mud avalanches happening. Once that path is waljed down to the soil, rain and melting snow will create a shear line. Desire paths are sirt of okay if people are in a hurry. But they are hiking for fun, in wild nature. So get off the lawn, don't trample over the plants struggling already on this heights and stay on the road. Stupid tourists.

Because "cars are the priority", not human lives. Force people with strollers to go between cars so that they are run over.

Oof

I think that's just a broken fence/j

UK superstition against walking between 2 white poles. (Black poles are no problem.)

Found animal pee spot...