Some Not All

The Inner Sunset’s Golden Gate Heights neighborhood is pure heaven for those of us who love our long stairways: one after another. Pix here are some of ‘em, not all. 

Starting off at the foot of the 148 Hidden Garden Steps, Kirkham up to Lawton on 16th Ave. Pix 1 thru 4. 

Continuing up the Hidden Garden Steps: 5 thru 16.

Next, the Moraga/16th tiled stairway, foot and near the top, pix 17 and 18, 163 steps. 

At the top of the Moraga steps you can continue up the 144 zigzag stairs (19, 20, 21) to Grandview Park, San Francisco’s tallest sand dune.

And continue down the Moraga steps on the east slope of the hilltop park: 195 steps: 22, 23. 

Passing the foot of Mount stairway (24, 25), then Ortega’s foot (pic 26).

Selma Way, Ortega to Noriega, has 153 steps: last three pix.

.... To be continued ... 

1. Foot of the Hidden Garden Steps. 16th Ave. & Kirkham.

2. Now a tiled plaque too

3. Starting up the Hidden Garden Steps

4. 148 steps

5. Public stairway art

6. Partway up

7. Let's tile 'em all!

8. Reading the messages and names

9. Stairway turns

10. Looking down

11. Alongside the stairway

12. Another view down

13. Plantings on each side of the steps

14. Trees in distance are in Golden Gate Park

15. Top at Lawton

16. Top at Lawton

17. Foot of 16th & Moraga tiled steps (completed 2005)

18. Near top of Moraga/16th Ave. stairs

19. First bench on the west Grandview Park stairway

20. View west from partway up the Grandview Park steps

21. View south and west: Grandview Park zigzag stairs

22. Top of the east Moraga steps, view across to Mount Sutro

23. Down the east Moraga Stairmaster

24. Foot of Mount stairway

25. Foot of Mount steps

26. Foot of Ortega stairway

27. Selma stairway

28. 153 steps

29. Selma: looking down from top