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Peaks and Gardens

8/9/2012

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After circling around Twin Peaks park (first six pics), started back down the way I'd come up via the Crestline stairway (my name for it: 94 or so uneven wood park steps) down to Crestline (seventh pic) and across the street for the top of the Vista Lane stairway (about 261 steps). The foot of Vista is at Burnett, where there are two of these last stair sections a short distance apart, the one descended today directly across from the Hopkins Street sign.

East on Burnett with a steepish trek up to Twin Peaks Blvd. where I turned right down Raccoon, across from Mountain Spring. At the foot of supershort Raccoon is Crown Court. To the left is an opening between two buildings and a few steppingstones out to Crown Terrace. A few yards away is the top of the Pemberton stairway (about 211 steps), the first block very old, uneven brick steps (eighth pic). The rest of the steps are newer bricked down to Clayton near Corbett (ninth pic). 

The Clayton/Corbett garden steps (36) took me down to Corbett. Continued past Al's Park a short distance to revisit the new startup garden across from the Mars/Corbett street sign. I could easily see Market now, one street below. It's been further cleared out on top, but is still locked. 

This time continued down steep Danvers where there's a short stairway to Market & 18th. East on 18th to the Storrie Ord Neighborhood Group minipark/garden. This one just keeps getting better: flowers, several benches and shady pathways between Storrie and the Ord stairway (33 steps, the one with the wall mural) that leads back down to 18th. 

1. Eureka Peak
2. Eureka Peak
3. Eureka Peak
4. Mount Sutro's Forest Knolls 'hood from Twin Peaks Park
5. From the view-wall. 
6. Hikers' trail to right. 
7. Trailhead into the park from Crestline
8. Older Pemberton steps up to Crown Terrace
9. Newer Pemberton steps


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    I like meandering around on San Francisco's park trails and public stairways, sometimes taking photos, and enjoying nature and the outdoors.

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