path, n.Trivia

Boston's crooked streets are said, apocryphally, to be a result of the citizens of Olde Boston having just paved over cow paths.

In Finland, city planners visit parks immediately after the first snowfall to show the paths people naturally choose ('desire paths') which can help guide them in building permanent paths.

so-called 'desire paths' are paths naturally created by people's footfalls when they walk around paved paths.