What You Can Walk To From 664 Shoup Ave W
Measured walking times from 664 Shoup Ave W in Twin Falls to food, coffee, groceries, parks and motels. Routed on real sidewalks, not straight lines.
Eight health addresses sit inside our walking set. The closest is 0.15 miles from the front door, a three minute walk on the sidewalk, and four of the eight are five minutes or less.
Laundry keeps you on this block while the machines run. This page is about which walks fit inside that time and which ones do not.
Every time below was routed on the real pedestrian network, sidewalks and crossings. Nothing here is a straight line drawn across a map.
The closest health address is a three minute walk
Eight health addresses sit inside the walking set. The closest is 0.15 miles from our door, and routed on sidewalks and crossings that is a three minute walk. Four of the eight are five minutes or less. The nearest record my source set files as a hospital is a five minute walk, 0.24 miles. I am not printing names for any of them, for the reason at the bottom of this page.
That decides who this store is really for. If you work a shift at one of those addresses, you can start a load, walk back, and come get it later. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. There is no attendant at any hour, and there never is. The machines are self service, the cameras run, the lights stay on, and the signs inside are in English and Spanish.
- Small washer, up to 20 lbs
- $2.75 per wash cycle
- Medium washer, up to 40 lbs
- $5.25 per wash cycle
- Large washer, up to 55 lbs
- $6.50 per wash cycle
- Extra large washer, up to 70 lbs
- $7.75 per wash cycle
- Any dryer
- $0.25 per cycle. Small runs 5 minutes, large 4 minutes, giant 3 minutes. Most loads finish on $1.00 to $2.00 of dryer time.
Six lodging addresses are inside the walk. The closest is five minutes out at 0.24 miles. Park Motel is 9 minutes and 0.44 miles. Dunes Motel is 10 minutes, 0.45 miles. Monterey Motor Inn is 10 minutes, 0.48 miles. Apollo Motor Inn is 12 minutes, 0.56 miles. If you are living out of a bag in one of them, this is the closest place to get clean clothes at any hour of the night. If you drove in, parking out front is free, 10 or more lit spaces, and wide enough for a truck, an RV or a trailer.
The closest thing in each category
Sixty four places sit inside the walking set, and nothing in it is farther than a 30 minute walk. Here is the nearest one in each category, sorted by how long it takes to get there on foot.
| Category | Closest, walking | Distance | Nearest one this page names | How many in range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic and community services | 1 minute | 0.06 miles | None named | 8 |
| Parks and recreation | 3 minutes | 0.14 miles | Harry Barry Park, 14 minutes | 5 |
| Health offices and clinics | 3 minutes | 0.15 miles | Gameday Men's Health, 21 minutes | 8 |
| Gas station | 5 minutes | 0.24 miles | None named | 7 |
| Motel | 5 minutes | 0.24 miles | Park Motel, 9 minutes | 6 |
| Grocery and convenience | 5 minutes | 0.25 miles | Oasis Stop 'N Go, 5 minutes | 8 |
| Food | 7 minutes | 0.32 miles | Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, 10 minutes | 8 |
| Money transfer and ATM | 10 minutes | 0.47 miles | None named | 4 |
| Coffee | 19 minutes | 0.89 miles | The Human Bean, 19 minutes | 6 |
| Hardware and general goods | 21 minutes | 0.97 miles | None named | 4 |
Closest place in each category on foot from 664 Shoup Ave W, measured September 2, 2026.
Where a row says none named, the places are real and the distances are measured. My source set flags each record for whether its name is safe to print, and in those four categories not one of the nearby records carries that flag. A distance I can stand behind is worth more to you than a name I cannot.
Coffee is the one long walk
Six coffee addresses are in range. Not one of them is under 19 minutes. The Human Bean is the closest at 19 minutes and 0.89 miles. Norm's Cafe is 20 minutes, 0.95 miles. Mi Pueblo Bakery is 21 minutes, 0.99 miles. Sweet T's Cupcakery is 24 minutes, 1.14 miles.
Nineteen minutes each way is 38 minutes of walking before you stand in any line. A large dryer gives you four minutes for a quarter. So a coffee walk is not a dryer break here. It is most of the visit. Plan on that or bring a cup with you.
There is a reason to stay put. Wi-Fi is free and there is no password to ask anybody for, because there is nobody to ask. There is seating, laptop space and large folding tables. Vending covers single use detergent, fabric softener and dryer sheets. There is no drink or candy vending at this store.
Food, and the math on when to leave
Eight food addresses are in range. The closest is a seven minute walk at 0.32 miles, and it is one of the ones I am not naming. Dairy Queen Grill & Chill is 10 minutes and 0.48 miles. A&W Restaurant is 14 minutes, 0.66 miles. McDonald's is 17 minutes, 0.78 miles.
Here is the timing. Most loads finish on $1.00 to $2.00 of dryer time. At $0.25 a cycle that is four to eight cycles. On a large dryer at four minutes a cycle, that is 16 to 32 minutes of drying. A 10 minute walk each way plus a wait at a counter eats most of that window.
Start the wash, then walk. Do not start the dryer and walk. A load that finishes drying while you are gone is the one you come back to and have to run again.
A grocery run on foot is a small one
Eight grocery addresses are in range. Six of the eight are convenience stores and two are grocery stores. None of the eight is filed as a supermarket, so a full grocery run is a car trip, not a laundry break.
The closest is Oasis Stop 'N Go, five minutes out at 0.25 miles. Asian Food Market is 10 minutes and 0.47 miles. Swensen's Magic Market on Addison is 18 minutes and 0.84 miles.
You do not need to buy something to break a bill. The change machine here takes $1, $5, $10 and $20 and gives back quarters. You can also pay with the Speed Queen app, a credit or debit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. The app location code is HANDYW.
Parks are the best use of the time
Five park and recreation addresses are in range. The closest is a park, three minutes out at 0.14 miles, and it is one of the records whose name I am leaving off. The distance is measured and correct. The name is not flagged safe to print, so it stays off.
Harry Barry Park is 14 minutes and 0.67 miles. Rock Creek Park is 18 minutes and 0.83 miles. Both are well past a single dryer cycle, so treat them as a walk to take while the washer runs rather than between dryer cycles.
In decent weather the three minute park is the honest answer. It is the only thing on this whole list that is close enough to visit twice.
What is honestly not close
Hardware and general goods. Four addresses in range and the closest is 21 minutes at 0.97 miles. That is not a break, that is an errand.
A dry cleaner. There is not one you can walk to. Nothing in the walking set is a dry cleaner at all. The closest one I measured is a four minute drive, 1.82 miles.
Wash and fold. We do not do it. No drop off, no pickup, no delivery, no counter and nobody behind one. You load, you wash, you dry, you fold. That trade is why a small load is $2.75.
Other laundromats, if you want to compare. The two closest are a five minute and a six minute drive, 2.21 and 2.26 miles.
On what those places charge, I have nothing to tell you, and that is the finding. Seven other laundry businesses in Twin Falls and Jerome were checked on September 2, 2026. The test was what each business publishes about itself, not what a directory says about it, and where a business has no site of its own that was recorded as a fact about the business. Six of the seven have no website of their own. One has published a price for a single machine type, in a reply to a review, and none of the seven publishes a full price list. One of them did have a real site of its own in 2024, and its domain is not registered today, so nothing that was on it is current and there is nothing left to link to. I am not going to invent a competitor's price. Ours are on the pricing page and repeated above.
How these times were measured
Every walking time on this page was routed on the real pedestrian network, sidewalks and crossings, using OSRM routed-foot at routing.openstreetmap.de on September 2, 2026. The median implied pace works out to 1.25 meters per second, about 2.8 miles an hour. If you walk faster than that, subtract. Drive times come from OSRM routed-car on the same day.
The list of places came from Overture Maps, release 2026-08-19.0, downloaded September 1, 2026. Sixty four of them are inside the walking set. Every record in that set carries a flag for whether its name is safe to print. Where the flag is off I counted the place and measured the walk, but the name stays off the page. The counts and the distances are measurements either way.
If a machine is down or something is wrong in the store, call (208) 731-5745 or write help@tfhandywash.com. The store is unattended, so we do not know something has gone wrong unless somebody tells us.
Questions people ask
- How close is the nearest clinic or hospital?
- Eight health addresses are inside the walking set. The closest is 0.15 miles, a three minute walk on the sidewalk network, and four of the eight are five minutes or less. The nearest record filed as a hospital is a five minute walk, 0.24 miles. I am not printing those names, because my source set does not flag them as safe to name. We are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, so a night shift is not a problem.
- Can I walk somewhere for coffee while my clothes are running?
- Only if you time it against the wash, not the dryer. The nearest coffee is The Human Bean at 19 minutes and 0.89 miles, so 38 minutes of walking round trip. Norm's Cafe is 20 minutes, Mi Pueblo Bakery 21 minutes, Sweet T's Cupcakery 24 minutes. A large dryer runs four minutes on a quarter, so a coffee walk will outlast several cycles.
- Is there food within walking distance?
- Eight food addresses are in range. The closest is a seven minute walk at 0.32 miles. The ones I can name are Dairy Queen Grill & Chill at 10 minutes and 0.48 miles, A&W Restaurant at 14 minutes and 0.66 miles, and McDonald's at 17 minutes and 0.78 miles.
- Where do I get quarters?
- There is a change machine on site. It takes $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills and dispenses quarters, so you do not have to walk anywhere to break a bill. You can also pay with the Speed Queen app, a credit or debit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. The app location code is HANDYW.
- What does a load actually cost?
- Washers are $2.75 for the small 20 pound machine, $5.25 for the 40 pound, $6.50 for the 55 pound and $7.75 for the 70 pound. Every dryer is $0.25 a cycle. Most loads finish on $1.00 to $2.00 of dryer time, which is four to eight cycles.
- Do you do wash and fold or drop off?
- No. This is a self service laundromat. There is no wash and fold, no drop off, no pickup and no delivery at this location. You load, wash, dry and fold your own laundry, and that is why the prices are what they are.
- Is anyone there at two in the morning if a machine eats my money?
- No. The store is unattended at every hour, and it always is. There are security cameras and bright LED lighting inside and out. Call (208) 731-5745 or write help@tfhandywash.com. The store is unattended, so we do not know something has gone wrong unless somebody tells us.
- Is there a park near the laundromat?
- Five park and recreation addresses are in the walking set. The closest is a park three minutes away at 0.14 miles. Harry Barry Park is 14 minutes and 0.67 miles. Rock Creek Park is 18 minutes and 0.83 miles.
- Can I park a truck or a trailer here?
- Yes. Parking is free, there are 10 or more well lit spaces directly in front, and they are wide enough for trucks, SUVs, RVs and trailers. There are designated accessible spaces near the front door.
- How do your prices compare to the other laundromats nearby?
- I cannot give you a comparison, because almost nobody else publishes one. Seven other laundry businesses in Twin Falls and Jerome were checked on September 2, 2026 against what each one publishes about itself. Six of the seven have no website of their own, one has published a price for a single machine type in a reply to a review, and none publishes a full price list. The two closest are a five and a six minute drive from here, 2.21 and 2.26 miles.
Published September 2, 2026. Competitor facts were read from each business's own website on that date and prices move, so check before you rely on one.