If you are serious about it, the best snowshoes are the Pickerals. Bear paw and most of these snowshoes you are seeing today will work for parking lots and sidewalks. If you get into snow that you really need snowshoes, these are the ones to get.
The other snowshoes may help you shed more pounds if you take them into deep snow, so maybe you won't have to go as far...
The Pickeral or Alaskan Trail snowshoes are fine for mostly flat terrain, but the modern 'shoes really shine when going up.
