Starting this hike rom Castro up to De Forest, a swalkers-only way up up to the east edge of Corona Heights Park: 1
Flint St. dead-end at De Forest: 2, 3
From Fint up a steep trail to the Randall Museum’s east steps: 4, 6, 6
Here you’ll see the east trailhead for the 130 steps to the upper bench. More steps curve round the south side after this, descending on the west side of the summit rocks and out to Roosevelt.
Around to the main entrance of the Randall: 7 thru 12
The new animal room was open (closed Monday). My favorite this time was a pair of turtles. Second was a gorgeous snake trying to get past the glass barrier of its cage.
The steep zigzag ramp descends to a playground and States St. in the Corona Heights neighborhood: 12 thru 20
States St. uphill west: 21, 22, 23
The Castle is a delight to behold: 24 thru 34
Continuing up States to where it turns left on Levant: 35 thru 40
Levant/States stairs up to Roosevelt: 41
South on Levant to the top of Vulcan Stairway: 42, 43
A few THENS from 1072: 74 Vulcan, 66-68 Vulcan, and Vulcan's foot near Ord: 44, 45, 46
Down Vulcan (Eureka Valley/Castro neighborhood). 219 steps for the north, main, stairway:47 thru 55
Vulcan’s south stairway is a dead-end with three homes on it and a couple of microtrails to it from the north steps: 56, 57
Back from where it turns, down to Ord: 58 turu 64
Ord's a dead-end on the north side; south end crosses 17th): 65
View from Old up the Saturn minipark stairway, next stair-street to the south of Vulcan: 66. 67
Love the benches at the foot of Saturn: 68
More Ord: 69 thru 78
Passing the old, long-closed streetcar tracks on upper Market just before the Castro Metro station:
1 De Forest up to Flint
2 Dead-end of Flint St. at De Forest
3 Flint at De Forest
4 Trail up into the park on the east side
5 It's steep but the potholes have been filled
6 Randall Museum's east steps
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13 Zigzag ramp down the south side to States St.
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21 States St. in the Corona Heights Neighborhood
22 Connector stairs from Corona Heights to Eureka Valley (Douglass St.)
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24 The Castle on States
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35 Next door to the Castle
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41 Up to Roosevelt from States/Levant
42 Levant St.
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44 A THEN: 74 Vulcan Stairway from 1972
45 THEN: 66/68
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53 One of two N-S micro-walkways between the north and south stairways
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56 1 and 3 Vulcan on the south stairway
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58 Back on the north stairway
59 A view north to Corona Heights and Corona Heights Park
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65 Thru for walkers to Douglass to the right
66 The Saturn stairway is now a minipark
67 Saturn minipark runs thru to upper Saturn where there is a sidewalk stairway
68 Foot of Saturn minipark
69 Continuing south on Ord towards 17th
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