[Overtaxed]

I need to put a walk of some sort from the driveway to the gate. I don't like the idea of the downspout draining across the walk, but then I guess it doesn't really matter except in freezing weather.

Since that picture, I've painted the gate white.

[SuziQ]

Can you get a bit of PVC pipe and attach it to the downspout, then bury the pipe below the walkway so that the water goes from the downspout into the pipe to the other side of the walkway?

[TalonDJ]

Put in a French Drain. Dig a trench to about the bottom of the picture about a foot to a foot and a half deep. Lay one of those black plastic flexible tubes into it. Make the tube stop about two feet from the end of the trench. Punch a bunch of holes in the last foot or two of the tube. Put some gravel in the last 2feet of the trench that the tube does not lay in. The gravel should only be as high as the top of the tube. cover it all with dirt and sod. Now but a sidewalk over it.