How we measure

Our numbers come from OpenStreetMap, the free and open world map. A program measures them; nobody types them in, and hotels can't pay for a listing or a higher spot.

• The finish line: the main entrance mapped on the venue's grounds, or where none is mapped, the nearest edge of the grounds. Each page says which.
• Walk minutes: the length of a real walking route from the open routing service on OpenStreetMap, at 80 m a minute (close to 3 mph). A place is shown as walkable only with such a route of 20 minutes or less.
• Drive minutes: the straight-line distance plus 35% for roads, at an average 40 km/h (25 mph), plus 3 minutes to park and get to the gate. No traffic, no game-day parking lines: treat them as a floor.
• Fields and courts: the playing fields mapped inside the grounds, counted by sport. Mappers miss some, so a complex can have more than we show.
• Ice arenas: rinks the map marks as a building or names as an arena; ponds and flooded winter rinks in parks are left out. A sheet count appears only where mappers drew each sheet, so an arena with no count may still have two.
• Suites, breakfast, kitchens and guest laundry are brand standards (Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites, Hampton, Residence Inn and others), not checked hotel by hotel.
• Pools are the ones mapped on a hotel's grounds. Many hotels with pools aren't mapped yet, so a missing pool doesn't mean there isn't one.
• Food, groceries, laundromats and pharmacies are the nearest named ones within 0.4 miles of each hotel, as the crow flies.

How close are the times?

We tested both methods against real routes, with the method and the pass mark written down before the test ran (November 2026). Driving passed: on 80 hotel and venue pairs, half our times were within 2 minutes of the routing service and 88% within 5; ours run slightly long, so you're rarely late. Walking failed: a straight line can't see a river, a highway or a rail line, and youth complexes often sit right behind one (a hotel that looked 18 minutes away was an 88-minute walk). So we no longer estimate walks at all: every walk time on this site comes from a real walking route.

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