Hidden Garden Steps
148 mosaic steps on 16th Avenue, and the quieter of the two tiled staircases in this part of the city.
Attraction Category: Viewpoints
Pemberton Place Steps
Roughly 194 steps in three flights up the east side of Twin Peaks, lined with gardens the residents tend themselves.
Harry Street Steps
A wooden stairway through the trees in Glen Park, and the only way home for several houses on it.
Greenwich Steps
A 280 foot climb up Telegraph Hill, part concrete and part brick, one block north of the Filbert Steps.
Filbert Steps
About 400 steps up the quarried east face of Telegraph Hill, through a garden one woman planted over 33 years.
Lincoln Park Steps
Mosaic-tiled staircase at the end of California Street climbing to Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor. Fewer crowds than the 16th Avenue Steps, with ocean views at the top.
Vermont Street
Potrero Hill’s Vermont Street has seven switchbacks between 20th and 22nd Streets. Site of the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race every Easter Sunday.
Hopper’s Hands
A pair of yellow metal hand outlines bolted to a fence behind Fort Point, made by Golden Gate Bridge ironworker Ken Hopper around 2000. Runners high-five them at the turnaround point on the Bay Trail.
16th Avenue Tiled Steps
A 163-step mosaic staircase in the Inner Sunset that runs sea-to-sky, leading up to Grandview Park.
Battery Spencer
A Marin Headlands overlook 500 feet above the Golden Gate Bridge’s north tower, with the bridge in the foreground and the San Francisco skyline behind it.
