Thanks. If you look at the Street View image, the area at the base of the ramp (after the dark pavement) is actually gravel and the area of the sidewalk paralleling the road is actually VERY chewed up right at the path to the bridge. In the aerial view, you can actually see a "herd path" in the grass (starting at the white 'X' on the main sidewalk) where people actually cut across it to avoid that area, but that doesn't make the transition to the ramp any easier.