Lacy, a Sacramento native, has endeavored to walk every street on Sacramento’s downtown and midtown grid. She started walking in the winter of 2024, and started documenting this process on her Instagram page in March of 2025, encouraging people to be more curious about their community. According to her map, which she keeps in a journal and marks down the streets she’s walked in red, she only has about 10 more streets left.
She’s requested to withhold her last name due to privacy concerns. CapRadio joined her on her walk of the entirety of 27th street.
Interview highlights
Why did you start doing this?
I’ve lived downtown for quite some time, as an adult and as a child. I lived down here for a little bit of time when I was like six years old or so. There were a lot of parts of the city that I just never saw. You get really used to going your certain routes and things like that. There’s just blocks that I knew I had been missing…