A man walked barefoot from Los Angeles to New York to break a Guinness World Record.

A Dutchman who walked barefoot from Los Angeles to Times Square to raise awareness of men’s mental health and set a Guinness World Record completed his 260-day journey on Saturday.

Anton Nutenboom, an Army veteran, said the first thing he’ll do after walking 3,100 miles in eight and a half months is put on a pair of shoes and socks.

“They’ll be there, right at the finish line,” Nutenboom, 37, told The Post Thursday from Staten Island.

“I almost forgot what it felt like.”

To set the world record, he was not allowed to have anything on his legs while walking, not even a bandage.

He could have worn socks and shoes during breaks, but chose not to—so the last time anything other than asphalt and concrete touched his feet was Feb. 17, the day he set out on his intrepid hike.

Nootenboom, known as the “Barefoot Dutchman” and followed by 1.3 million people through his Facebook, Instagram and TikTok pages, said the expedition had been an ordeal.

“They walked through desert and snow. There were definitely small pieces of broken glass. When a car tire blows out, it leaves metal pins in it, so I had to yank them out of my leg quite often,” he said.

“The first month or so was the most interesting because my skin was still quite soft… and then the concrete of the roads started to feel like sandpaper. And small pebbles just fell into these wounds.”

His girlfriend and dog accompanied him in the camper.

“Where we sleep every night is a complete surprise. We never know where we will end up. In large cities, these are Walmart parking lots – there is a toilet there,” he explained.

“But the West, of course, is mostly desert. So we just camped in the middle of nowhere, eating canned goods. We camped in a lot of national forests.”

Sometimes they would stay at hotels overnight to shower, and other guests would be stunned by Notenboom’s lack of shoes and “look at me like I was from Mars or something,” he said.

Good Samaritans they met along the way also offered their homes as lodgings.

“We would meet them at the dog park or at the coffee shop, wherever. And we would just start chatting about what we were doing and they would just invite us to stay at their house,” he said.

Nootenboom, who served in the Dutch army for 10 years and served three tours in Afghanistan, timed the end of his trip to coincide with Movember, an annual fundraising campaign for men’s health, and has raised more than $40,000 so far.

After leaving the army, he sold all his possessions and decided to travel, which ultimately took a toll on his mental health and he fell into a deep depression in 2018.

“It was grief, financial pressure, the wrong job… I found myself back in the dorm… I was lying on my bunk bed when I was about 30, realizing that I had completely lost my identity,” he explained.

“For 10 years all I had to do was just pretend I was a bush. I had a very purposeful life in the military… and now all of a sudden I had no direction.”

Nutenboom was living near the beaches of Sydney, Australia, when he began walking barefoot, which he says is common there, to keep his mind occupied.

He quickly discovered that walking without shoes or socks helped his psyche.

“I always thought they were a bunch of hippies. But then I began to feel that the charge of the earth contains a certain energy, and we need to walk barefoot so that we can receive this energy,” he explained. “You start creating happy chemicals as soon as your bare feet hit the ground.”

His character “Barefoot Dutchman” was born in 2019 after he trekked barefoot to Everest Base Camp, a feat he had never accomplished before.

He already set the record for the longest barefoot walk in 2021 when he covered approximately 1,900 miles from Cairns to Sydney. In January, this record was broken by the Pole Pavel Durakevich, and Nutenboom turned to him.

“I sent him a message like, ‘I’m really sorry, man, but I’m going to do almost double that,'” he said.

Nutenboom said he plans to set more world records.

“I will never do anything this important again, let me say it,” he said.

“There are world records that can be set in a day or two.”