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Around the Great Gatsby’s New York
Nick Carraway spends one summer between the Eggs of Long Island and the heart of Manhattan, drawn into Jay Gatsby’s parties and his long hope of winning back Daisy. This route follows that summer into the city and back again, ending where the story does. You walk it on your everyday walks, wherever you are.
- Distance
- 25 miles (40 km)
- Waypoints
- 10
- Book by
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Included with StoryTrek+, or buy this journey on its own for $2.99 and keep it.
Twenty-five miles of Jazz Age summer.
Fitzgerald sets the Eggs about twenty miles from the city, but never maps the rest of Nick’s summer. StoryTrek’s route runs 25 miles, with 10 waypoints drawn from the novel. Every walk, run, or treadmill session your phone records carries you along it.
How long the journey takes
| You walk | You reach the end in |
|---|---|
| 1 mile a day (2 km) | about 25 days |
| 2 miles a day (3 km) | about 13 days |
| 3 miles a day (5 km) | about 9 days |
| 5 miles a day (8 km) | about 5 days |
A 10,000-step day is roughly 4 to 5 miles, which gets you to the end in about 6 days.
Out to the city and back again.
The route moves as the novel does, from the Eggs into the heart of Manhattan and back again, seen through Nick Carraway’s eyes. It ends where the story ends, after a summer of glamour, longing, and the American Dream at its most beautiful and most broken.
Each waypoint pairs an image made for this route with a moment from the story. Reach one, and the next stretch of that summer opens.
Walk it together
Start a company and bring a friend, a book club, or your office along for the summer. Everyone walks their own miles, wherever they live, and the group heads into Manhattan and back to the Eggs together.
Step into the Jazz Age
The green light
is up ahead.
Download StoryTrek, choose Around the Great Gatsby’s New York, and follow Nick into the summer of 1922.