Benjamin Solomon is walking everywhere for 30 days

This is peak creativity.

A Brooklyn hiking enthusiast with dreams of one day tackling the nation’s highest mountains is carving his own trail through the concrete jungle this month by challenging himself to use his own two feet as his sole means of transportation.

Benjamin Solomon is just a week shy of finishing up his month-long “Thru-Hike to Nowhere,” a homemade mission that has seen him walk more than 300 miles so far, including his daily three-hour roundtrip walk to work.

“New Yorkers were always in a rush to get everywhere, and we have so many different ways to get somewhere, but I think we overlook the power in walking,” said Solomon, who works at an entertainment company.

Solomon, 42, kicked off his journey on Sept. 15 with a simple goal to “walk everywhere,” whether its to work, to dinner, to a friend’s and anywhere else he needed to go over the following 30 days.

The hiker has imposed a strict set of rules on himself throughout the four-week endeavor, the simplest of which prohibits the use of cars, trains, buses, scooters and bikes — and has even denied himself any form of food delivery.

That means that he clocks a minimum of 12 miles on the five days a week he walks from his home in Williamsburg to his office in Midtown and back at night, a trek that takes roughly 180 minutes round-trip compared to the hour subway ride he would otherwise take.

That dedication has meant that Solomon has had to bow out of several events in the last few weeks because the distance wasn’t walk-friendly, like Rosh Hashanah dinner with family in Glen Rock, New Jersey and his college reunion in Colorado.

But the missed events have been well worth it, he explains: “There’s no perfect time to do anything. If you want to commit to something, you’re going to have to sacrifice something.”

As of Wednesday evening, Solomon has logged 297 miles — equivalent in length to Vermont’s Long Trail.

Solomon has been rewarded for the sacrifice, however — during his journey, Solomon has tread new trails for himself, like across the Queensboro Bridge, and has encountered the cast of characters sprinkled across the five boroughs.

“One of my favorites is when I walk the Williamsburg Bridge and it’s just used to do everything. There are people working out. There are people Djing. I saw once there were people having a dinner party, they set up a table and they were having a dinner party. I love that there are these public spaces, and we just use them to do whatever we want and, as New Yorkers, we barely blink at it,” said Solomon.

The idea was born out of his longtime dream of tackling colossal thru-hikes like the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail, which take as long as six months to complete — a timeframe the Willimsburg resident cannot afford to embark on at this time.

“Why do I have to wait? How can I just make up my own endurance hike here in New York? And that’s sort of what I decided to do with this Thru-Hike to Nowhere,” said Solomon, who has been uploading daily diaries to social media.

“We tend to think New York isn’t nature, that there’s no nature here and you’ve got to leave New York to experience nature,” he continued.

“But there’s so much nature here. When I am walking, I do feel like I’m in nature. When I’m up on the bridge high over the river, that’s beautiful — It’s like essentially being on a mountain. It’s changing the way you see the city.”

While the “Thru-Hike to Nowhere” might imply a negative connotation, it simply means that Solomon isn’t following any set trail like the well-trodden paths established throughout the Appalachian mountains — instead, he’s blazing his own trail.

Unsurprisingly, Solomon faced some “growing pains” at the beginning of his challenge, particularly some sore arches. But instead of giving up, the Brooklynite grabbed some orthodicts and kept it moving.

With another week on the books, Solomon hopes to stomp across another 100 miles to bring his grandtotal to 400.

By then, he’ll be primed to one day take on the Appalachian Trail, he said.