I’ve tested more than 50 pairs of walking shoes and the best for wide feet is now under $60

skechers Max Cushioning Arch Fit Areena — (Image credit: Amazon/Canva)

Skechers is one of the brands that has its own category in my guide to the best walking shoes and it's well deserved. It's rare for me to try one of its shoes and not love it.

This shoe originally retailed for $125, so seeing it drop below the $60 mark is quite rare. This pair is just $56.69.

While they have been listed on Amazon at $85 for a while, this discount brings them down even lower than they were for Black Friday in November of last year.

To get such a high-quality shoe for under $60 is an unbeatable bargain in my opinion.

I have a bunion, and I reach for this shoe when it is particularly sore.

I find that other shoes squash my toes together and rub on the bunion, which leaves me with fewer footwear choices than I'd like.

Thankfully, all Skechers shoes have roomy toe boxes and plenty of space for my feet to splay.

This shoe is particularly good as it is part of the Arch Fit range, which gently supports the arch of the foot, taking some of the pressure off my big toe joint.

Lou Mudge is a Health Writer at Future Plc, working across Fit&Well and Coach. She previously worked for Live Science, and regularly writes for Space.com and Pet's Radar. Based in Bath, UK, she has a passion for food, nutrition and health and is eager to demystify diet culture in order to make health and fitness accessible to everybody.

Multiple diagnoses in her early twenties sparked an interest in the gut-brain axis and the impact that diet and exercise can have on both physical and mental health. She was put on the FODMAP elimination diet during this time and learned to adapt recipes to fit these parameters, while retaining core flavors and textures, and now enjoys cooking for gut health.