Vulcan Stairway — Attraction in San Francisco

You think I would have spotted these steps sooner on the map with a name like "Vulcan", but they are new too me. I took advantage of a glorious spring morning to hike up these steps. They are similar to steps on Telegraph Hill. They consist of a mostly straight line of cerement steps ascending about two blocks up a fairly steep hillside. There are some landings where you can rest if you need to. The steps are surrounded by mostly well-kept private gardens that are easily visible to the public walkway. I especially loved seeing a lovely dogwood tree in bloom. Some of the houses are quite cute as well. This is an older neighborhood, so there is a wide mix of architectural styles. Being early spring, there were flowers out, but there will probably be much more in May. This is a moderately difficult set of stairs in that they are steep and somewhat long. My recommendation is to take the Vulcan Steps up and the Saturn Steps down. Saturn had better places to stop and rest your legs if...

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(Update: 2022. Got it correctly renamed! Hooray.) And for the record, it's called Vulcan Stairway, not Vulcan Street Stairs, not Vulcan Street Steps, not Vulcan Stairs, and not Vulcan Steps or any of that nonsense. Vulcan Stairway...got it??!! Many, many years ago it was Vulcan Street but that's going back a ways.

For those wondering....it's 219 stairs to the top. That's actual vertical stair-steps, not counting the "steps" you take walking on the landings on the way up.

Fun facts: this used to actually be a dirt road that started on Levant (called Juno back then) but didn't connect all the way down to Ord (called Clara Ave back then), it ended where the stairs shift over to the side. They put in the steps around 1925 and connected the two streets...

A verdant oasis of peace, climbing steeply between pretty small houses. If you stand still, you may hear the flutter of a hummingbird hovering near you. Wish they installed a bench where to sit and read. But I also understand why the local residents may not want it, seeing that even this hidden gem was not immune from the blight that is becoming more and more pervasive in our beloved city: an abandoned carryon with syringes and other random stuff strewn over several steps marred the idyllic place. I tried to focus on the local resilient denizens, such as spiders busy trapping...