About this domain

What was here before, and who we are.

The previous site

From about 2021 until 2025 this domain hosted the website of the Safe Routes to School program in Lane County, Oregon: information for schools, students and families about walking and biking to school, and program events.

That site closed and the domain registration lapsed. We registered it in 2026. We are not affiliated with the Safe Routes to School program, with the Safe Routes Partnership, with Lane County or with any school district, and this site is not a continuation of the program. None of its material has been copied or republished.

If you are looking for the original site, the Internet Archive holds copies; for the program itself, the national program's own website and your county's transportation office are the places to ask.

Who we are

The First Walk is made by the team behind Geopapa, a family locator app for parents: a parent app and a child app connected by a code, with the child's latest reported location, a record of the route, and arrival alerts for saved places such as school. It is free to download and offers in-app purchases.

We say this on every page because it is a commercial interest: the first weeks of walking alone are exactly when families consider an app like ours. The checklists are written to work without one. Where an app fits a step — the arrival routine, the late plan — we name ours and say what it does and does not do; an app tells you what happened, it does not make a crossing safer.

The site does one narrow thing: printable checklists for the first weeks a child gets to school on their own — the handover week, the plan for a late morning, and a family agreement. No advertising, nothing loaded from third parties; the only outbound links are to our own product, marked as such.

The checklists are general. They are not legal advice, and school arrival rules and local traffic law are yours to check with your school and county.

Old links

The old site's /for-students-and-families page is now our family agreement page, with a note at the bottom about the change; other old addresses lead here. If you hold the rights to material from the old site and would like the archive reference removed, write to us.

Contact

support@geopapa.com — the same address as for the app. Corrections and questions welcome.