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Botlove

9/26/2018

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There's free admission to Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden for those with identification showing  they’re San Francisco residents. 

Google Maps shows all the individual gardens. Go see this in person; photos don't do it justice. 

Starting on the south side, winding round to the west, then north side:



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Stow Beautiful

9/24/2018

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Trail to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park: 1

​Strawberry Hill up ahead: 2

Crossing the 1893 stone bridge: 3, 4

A trail up Strawberry Hill: 5 thru 12

Trails and stairways on the east side: 13 thru 29

Down another stairway to the north bridge: 30 thru 44

Trailing around to the east and Huntington Falls: 45 thru 56


Chinese Pavilion: 57 thru 68

Circling back to the south bridge again: 69 thru 82


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Vulcan Visit

9/23/2018

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Starting off at 16th & Castro up to Flint, a dead-end that runs along the east side of Corona Heights Park: 1, 2

Passing thru the lower part of the park, at the foot of the ramp: 3, 4

Upper States to Levant: 5 thru 18

Levant: 19 thru 24

Vulcan down from the top (219 steps), my favorite non-park San Francisco stairway: 25 thru 52

From the foot of Eureka Valley’s Vulcan, if you’re on foot you can cross over thru Ord Court to the north end of Douglass (10 steps): 53 thru 56

​Douglass: 57. 58


Here a stairway climbs to States St. in the Corona Heights neighborhood: 59, 60

Lower part of States back down to Castro: 61 thru 66 

Castro near 16th: 67
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China Baker

9/22/2018

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Off the bus at California and 28th Ave. and north into the upscale Sea Cliff neighborhood. Several blocks before reaching this: 1 thru 4

Top of the main stairway down to China Beach: 5, 6, 7

104 steps for the main stairway: 8 thru 19

20 and 22 steps for the shorter stairways in this GGNRA park: 20 thru 59

Up again: 60 thru 63

Winding west for the 49 wood, partly sand-covered steps nearly down to the Presidio’s Baker Bech: 64 thru 72

This stairtrail descends from the northernmost dead-end of 25th Ave. and emerges at the west side of the fenced-in buildings I see when hiking from El Camino Real/Lincoln to BB. What is this?:  73

West Baker Beach: 74

Up again:  75, 76

South on 26th Avenue:  77, 78



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Battery East Detours

9/5/2018

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The lower part of the Battery east Trail, to the west of the stairs, is still getting its makeover so like last visit there were detours. But the stairway, also as last time, is still walkable down to Crissy Field. 


Starting off at the main bridgeview area: 1


Heading east: 2 thru 5


Andrews Road: 6 thru 10

​153 wood steps: 11 thru 23



West Crissy Field: 24


Up again to Battery East Overlook: 25 thru 28


Onto the part of the trail that leads to the low overhead tunnel and out to the picnic area: 29 thru 35


Back up: 36, 37



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Garden and Walkway

9/3/2018

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Entering Fort Mason from the east side, passing the old tunnel:  1, 2
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mason_Tunnel

Starting out up the hill above the water (Black Point): 3 thru 6

Around the east side at the hostel: 7,8

Over to the  east side and down some old stairways: 9

20 down: 10, 11

23 sown:  12, 13

Down to the walkway, along the two concrete benches, continuing my descent to the east side of the park (64 total steps for this section). Despite the construction going on in the area there was a space from the foot of the stairs out to the sidewalk: 14 thru 27

A few buildings in this GGNRA park: 28 thru 32

Into the community garden. 23 steps for the main garden stairway:  33 thru 96

South park entrance:  97


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Shady Harry

9/2/2018

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Down into Noe Valley from Diamond Heights, top of Valley stairway, a minipark: 1

Beacon Street: 2, 3
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Top of Billy Goat Hill Park:  4

Glen Park's Harry (239 steps) down from Beacon: 5 thru 18

My favorite Harry house, 30 Harry:  19 thru 28 

This house (29) was having work done this visit. Here's how it looked in 1972: 30, 31

Continuing down Harry to Laidley: 32 thru 46

From Harry’s foot, started down from the south end of Noe at Laidley, east side. THENs (2004) and NOWs of a brown house I happened to have old pix of and its replacement. Something else was going up on this side: 47 thru 58

Further down Noe, now on the west side of the street, comparing old (2004) and new: 59, 60

​Corner of Noe & 30th Street: 61


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Top Down

9/1/2018

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The Forest Hill Metro Station looks the same as it did before the recent Twin Peaks tunnel work: 1

77 steps for the route taken from the main west entrance to Laguna Honda Hospital that's across from the Forest Hill Station.

Hospital grounds: 2 thru 13


Around to the back nearly to Portola Dr.: 14, 15

Back again for the top of the new trail recently climbed from the foot. 16 thru 58

One can step out onto the expanse of green lawn  and the walk around the edge of the forest up here.

Since my first visit new planting flags are in evidence higher up and multiple bags of trash alongside the fence as further cleanup efforts. 

​Clarendon out to Laguna Honda Blvd.: 59, 60, 61


Laguna Honda Reservoir with Mount Sutro above: 62 thru 65

#43 bus stop near Seventh Ave. & Wartren with  Forest Knolls neighborhood above:  66


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