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.
The Pickeral or Alaskan Trail worked fine for uphill as well as flat terrain. We used them in powder over 3 feet in depth all over the Horse Butte area around West Yellowstone in the winter when they still got deep snow.
The design of them is to scoot much the same as you would with skis, but they also didn't sink as bad as the cross country skis. Of course the wider the ski, the better the floatation, but the narrow skis are for trails and parking lots too...
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