Stairway Walks Day is Saturday, February 9th! Fifteen stairway walks, in neighborhoods across Seattle and environs, will celebrate our valuable legacy of public stairs. The walks start at 10AM, with routes based on the book and led by a Feet First Neighborhood Walking Ambassador. You can still sign up over at the Feet First web site.
If Seattle has a valuable legacy of public stairs, where exactly do we stand among other stairway-rich cities? To answer that question, we did a survey and found these stairway counts:
Pittsburgh 712 stairways...
San Francisco 670
Seattle 650
Cincinnati 400
Portland 207*
Los Angeles 200
Hogwarts 142
*Not including private, but publicly accessible, stairways
It looks like we're not quite at the top of the list, but we're right up there with the heavy hitters! The Hogwarts number may be unreliable, as it changes frequently.
It looks like we're not quite at the top of the list, but we're right up there with the heavy hitters! The Hogwarts number may be unreliable, as it changes frequently.
Hogwart's ever-changing stairs