An experiment based on an article by Nellie Bowles from the New York Times.

I don’t know what to tell you about this next portion: It’s very hard. There are a lot of stairs. But it has the best views, and I am left slack-jawed. I stop taking notes on these stairs, but I leave you with one piece of Crosstown Trail advice: Every time you walk down a flight of stairs, at the very end, look back. There is art hidden in the risers.

The 16th Avenue tiled steps up to Grandview Park, along the Crosstown Trail. Jason Henry for The New York Times

From here to the end is more familiar San Francisco tourist territory.

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