Long enough to keep from bending my knees while putting on shoes. Cartilage is gone from both of my knees, and they pop and snap bone to bone when I bend over. Other cheaper shoehorns seem to break easily, so far this heavy duty one seems to do the job without bending. I couldn't find a shoehorn long enough in the past, but this heavy quality unit works well. Time will tell if it holds up to heavy use, I liked the others when I first got them. I like this well enough that I have now ordered two See full review