SF City Guides offers a twice yearly neighborhood tour of the very stairways we traverse daily throughout Golden Gate Heights, which climb our residential streets and connect dramatic chert outcroppings and tucked-away parks with marvelous views of the city skyline, the Pacific Ocean, and beyond if you catch it before the fog rolls in.
On a mild Saturday afternoon at the base of the 15th Ave stairway, a group of neighborhood enthusiasts gathered to hear about the history of the Outside Lands, pick out city landmarks and native plants in between climbs of 100+ steps, and stand on the original architecture circa 1930s.
An extension of the Inner Sunset tour and other bits of neighborhood history I've picked up over the last seven years, it was especially interesting to find neighborhood developer Henry "what you can build with two nails his does with one" Doelger's home on Pacheco and 15th, and confirm local reference to Grandview Park is Turtle Hill.
More photos in my Flickr Places set.