Northwest Queen Anne

Queen Anne might have more stairways than any other Seattle neighborhood, and different parts of the hill have very distinctive looks and feel. (For a complete, whimsical map of all the stairs of Queen Anne, check out Thomas Horton's map, available at the Queen Anne Historical Society website.) To accomodate all this variety, we put together three separate stairway walks that track the highlights in each sector. This route covers the northwest quadrant of Queen Anne hill.

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Longfellow Creek and Pigeon Point

This 2 mile-long Seattle stairway walk takes place in West Seattle, atop the northern tip of Puget Ridge. From the top of this tree-covered ridge in the Pigeon Point neighborhood, you can get peek-a-boo views both east and west, Cascades and Olympics, depending on the season. The walk starts out down in the lowlands, on the incredible Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail, where you'll explore one of the nicest sections of this year-round creek. Thanks to careful design and determined restoration work largely carried out by volunteers, salmon and other native species swim here again.

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 The Dragonfly Pavilion, glimpsed from the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail

The view from the Charlestown Street stairs, descending the backside of Puget Ridge, includes the industrial Duwamish channel as well as the Cascade Mountains