Stairway Walks in San Francisco Author:Adah Bakalinsky, Marian Gregoire Fully updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Wilderness Press classic. Now with additional walks and 16 pages of full-color photographs, Stairway Walks in San Francisco contains step-by-step route descriptions that include notes on historical background, architecture, and other points of interest. Accompanying each o... more »f the 27 walks is an easy-to-follow map with corresponding numbered walk directions and public transportation information. Locals and tourists alike have used the book for over 20 years to explore San Francisco's beautiful neighborhoods. Includes four new neighborhood walks along even more of the city's stairways--Edgehill, St. Francis Wood, Four Hills, and a cross-city walk and sixteen pages of full-color photographs bring the descriptions and stairways to life. This book is Wilderness Press's best-selling San Francisco title. ". . . A fascinating trek through the sidewalk staircases hidden around the city."
--The New York Times "Bakalinsky . . . Is the Ferdinand Magellan, the Sir Francis Drake, the Vasco da Gama of San Francisco stairways."