Segment I – Silver Lake North to Echo Park – View Google Map – View Photos

Distance: 20.2 miles      90 stairways     5,003 up-steps     Total Climb:  3,640 feet
With 4 optional stairs: 94 stairways     5,241 up-steps     Total Climb:  3,770 feet

Facebook Event on 11 Feb 2017

Cities/Regions:  Silver Lake, Edendale, Echo Park, Angelino Heights, Westlake North.

Official Finishers:

Dan Gutierrez, Pat and Elizabeth Schirmer, Jason Songhurst, Evelyn Sanchez, Hilda Ibarra, Liria Enriquez, Brenda Padron, (and Winston Songhurst, Jason’s dog!!) on 11 February 2017 | Dave and Kristy Moorman on 14 May 2017 | Aaron Veals on 21 Jun 2017 | John and Olivia Oshimo on 30 Oct 2017 | Jeff Rozema, James Peterson, Kathy Lopez, Teresa Cavazos, Maribel Sanchez, Alfredo Salgado on 16 Dec 2017 | Maria Casillas, Luis Prado on 13 Jan 2018 | Gaelle Gralnek, Lisa Digger, Terry Harmon, Rosecrans Baldwin on 6 Oct 2018 | Who will be next?

Route Features: This challenging route is almost entirely in hilly Silver Lake and Echo Park residential neighborhoods, often with narrow streets lacking sidewalks, with brief visits to busier streets for lunch, and approaching the finish. So it is a walk of great views, quiet streets, and stairway after stairway after stairway, many with 100 or more steps and a handful with over 190 steps! The first 11 miles are the challenging Silver Lake portion, including a visit to the Silver Lake Recreation Area, with lunch on busy Sunset Dr, followed by the last 9 miles in the Echo Park region, including a number of 100+ steps stairways – one with over 200 steps – early in the section, with a visit to the southern end of Echo Park Lake, finishing with a less demanding trek west along Bellevue, followed by a short walk along Beverly, ending at the Original Tommy’s Burgers! This route has 4 of the top 10 stairways in Silver Lake, each with with over 200 steps, and has another handful in the 180 to 200 step range, so while it has fewer top 10 stairways then Segment H, it does have about 1,050 more up-steps and 35 more stairways! The people who did both H and I agree that the tougher stairways, especially those at the end make Segment H tougher!

Start Location:  Riverside Dr and Allesandro St, which is bus accessible via the Metro Bus Line 96 on Riverside, and Metro Bus Line 603, on Allesandro, that both connect to Rail Stations.

Finish Location: Beverly Blvd and Rampart Blvd (at The Original Tommy’s!), which is bus accessible via Metro Bus Line 603 on Rampart, and Metro Bus Line 14 on Beverly, that both connect to rail stations.

Transit Connections:
Finish to Start: Take Metro Bus Line 603 north on Rampart St, to reach the start on Allesandro Dr at Riverside Dr.

DTLA to Start: Take Metro Bus Line 96 from Union Station or Civic Center/Grand Park Metro Rail Stations, to the start on Riverside, at Allesandro.

Finish to DTLA: Take the Metro Bus Line 603 on Rampart, southbound to the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station, and take the Metro Red/Purple Line Train east to DTLA. Or take Metro Bus Line 14 on Beverly, that connects to the Civic Center/rand Park, or Pershing Square Metro Rail Stations, connecting to the Metro Red/Purple Line Trains.

Route Description:
Miles 0-5: From the southeastern corner of Allesandro at Riverside, go southwest, up the hill on the sidewalk on Alesandro, cross Rosebud, then turn left on Elmoran, which looks more like a driveway than a street, and just ahead and to the left is the beginning of the Elmoran (Via Artis) stairway. The steps are made of wood and gravel and are sometimes over grown with plants.

At the top of the stairway you veer right onto Alvarado, and follow it all the way down the hill to Whitmore, turn left and head up the hill on Whitmore to Peru, and make a left. At the end of Peru is a stairway, take it up to Walcott way, turn left and go up the steep hill, and just past the continuation of Peru (down to your left), you will look right for the Landa St stairway and go down to the street and continue to Whitmore.

Go right on Whitmore, then left on Landa, and climb the hill. At the top of the hill is a fork, Landa goes left and you go right onto Fellowship Parkway, as very narrow street. Follow it up the hill bending to the left near the top, where it ends into a private driveway. At the far left of the driveway are cinder block stairs that certainly look private, but is in fact a public stairway.

Climb these steep then later more shallow steps all the way up to gate, which is unlocked, open it and continue past a hammock to your right up past an artificial stream, also on the right, now walking on bricks, and at the top, you will come to a concrete stairway.
                                      Descend the stairs to Cerro Gordo St and turn right onto the sidewalk. Follow Cerro Gordo to the Y with Lake Shore, and cross to the left onto the right hand sidewalk on Lake Shore, and go down the hill past Cove and Baxter, and turn right onto Ewing, staying on the right hand sidewalk. You will see a stairway to your left.

Climb the stairs and cross the crosswalk on Alvarado, then turn left onto the sidewalk. Continue downhill on Alvarado past Ewing and cross Duane, then turn right and go down the steep hill all the way to where Duane intersects Allesandro. If you need snacks or fluids, there is a market to your left. Otherwise, turn right, cross Duane, and continue up Allesandro to reach Ewing, cross Ewing and turn right going up the steep sidewalk, and the side stairs, all the way to where they end in a driveway.

Cross the street to the opposite side (southwest) and go down the side stairs on that side of the street, and at the bottom, cross again to your right and continue on Allesandro to Fargo St, and turn right heading up the very sidewalk. There are 17 side-stair steps ahead.

Climb them, then cross to the north side of Fargo and come back down the hill once again to Allesandro and turn right, and continue past Baxter, and mile 2, to Cove. Turn right on Cove and before you is the magnificent 12 flight, 198 step Cove stairway. Climb it!

I refer to this as the Mama Cove stairway, you descended the 19 step Baby Cove stairway on the last segment after doing the Mattachine steps. At the top of Cove, turn right and follow the narrow street until it intersects Cerro Gordo to the left, and Alvarado to the right. Make the hard left and continue on Cerro Gordo until you reach Lake Shore Ave, turn left onto the sidewalk, and continue to the end of the straight-away. To your left is a sign for Oak Glen Pl, and it’s a stairway! Descend it.
At the bottom, descend the steep street, but not be fore you look across the canyon to see the Edendale Pl stairway (Ice Box Steps) you climbed near the end of the last segment. At the bottom of the hill, turn right onto Allesandro again, and continue NE to Loma Vista, turn right to see a pair of sidewalk ramps with a center stairway, with shallow steps.Climb to the top of the stairway, to find a dirt path. Climb the dirt path, being careful not to poke yourself on the succulent fronds jutting into the pathway, climb a tall step, and go up the wooden steps. At the top, turn right onto Lake Shore and climb all the way back up the hill to Cerro Gordo, and turn left onto the sidewalk. Continue uphill to where Lake Shore converges, and just past the  convergence, on your right, across the street, is what looks like a narrow through alleyway. Cross the street and follow the alleyway to the next street, Lemoyne, cross Lemoyne and continue down the gradually steepening walkway to the set of 25 steps at the bottom. Descend the steps.

Continue eastward on Donaldson St, be careful when crossing Echo Park Ave, and at the end of the short stub of Donaldson just past the 4 mile mark, take the stairway up to Princeton Ave.Turn left and continue a short block to Cerro Gordo, then turn right and go down the steep hill and turn left onto Valentine St near the bottom. climb up the gentle grade on Valentine, and look to your left for diagonal parked cars where the street widens. At the middle and rear of the parking stalls is the Curran St stairway. Climb it!
Continue on Curran down the steep hill to Echo park Ave, turn left and continue to Cerro Gordo, turn right and across the street is a side-stair going up hill.
Climb it, then turn left to cross Cerro Gordo St, and you will see another side-stair on the opposite side of the street.
[photo of Cerro Gordo S Side Stair]
Go down the stairway, and at the bottom continue down to Echo Park Ave, and cross to the east (opposite) side, turn right, and walk all the way to Baxter St, the Fix Coffee Shop is on your left, and makes for a good restroom/snack/rest stop.  Cross to the diagonal opposite corner of Echo Park Ave and Baxter St (SW corner), and head up the hill on Baxter. 2/3s of the way up to the next street, Vestal, there will be a sign pole that reads Baxter St, and immediately beyond it is the Preston St Stairway.
Climb it and stay to the left side of the street, as after the first home, you come upon the next stairway that goes down Fargo St to the your left, heading east.
Go down the stairs then Fargo street all the way down to Echo Park Ave, carefully cross it, and turn left continuing uphill, back to the intersection with Baxter, and turn right follow Baxter all the way up the hill past Princeton, Valentin and Avon, and as you curve to your right above Avon, you will see the impressive 231 step Baxter stairway to your left.
At the top of baxter, do look back at the view toward Griffith Observatory and HOLLYWOOD sign, before following the driveway down to Park Dr, turn right go down the hill and take the right at the bottom onto Ewing St. Go down the steep hill and jog left on Avon then right to continue going downhill on Ewing St to Echo Park Ave. Cross Echo Park Ave and climb the brutally steep hill to Preston Ave. At Preston, look across the street for a fairly narrow stairway. Climb it!At the top, continue on the narrow walkway all the way down, including 8 steps, to Vestal Ave. Turn right and continue downhill to the corner intersection with Avalon. At the right of the corner is the 125 step Avalon West stairway. Go up the stairway.At the top, turn left on Lemoyne on the near side sidewalk, and continue all the way down to the fork with Preston. Turn hard left onto Preston, and you will have reached the 5 mile mark and the end of this section of the walk.

Miles 5-10: Continue downhill to the northeast on Preston, turn right on Avalon, and take it across Echo Park Ave, up the steep hill, and at the end of the street you will see the long 192 step  Avalon East stairway. Climb the stairs!At the top, turn right and go all the way down Lucretia to Echo Park Ave, cross the street and turn left and head downhill, south until you reach Delta St. At the corner is the Chango Cafe, which can serve as a restroom stop. Turn right heading northwest up the hill on Delta, to reach the stairway at the end of the street. Climb the stairs.
                                     Turn left at the top and continue downhill on Lucretia, to reach another stairway.Go down the stairs, and be careful on the lower set, which is very steep. I recommend using the hand rail. At the bottom , turn left onto Grafton, continue one block NW to Lemoyne, turn right, then almost immediately left onto Berkeley and continue NW past lakeshore Ave and turn right onto narrow Lobdell Pl, after passing mile 6, and at the top of the hill, continue left onto Delta St, conning NW until you reach Alvarado. Across from you is the Delta West stairway.Go down, and cross the the street to continue on the sidewalk on Alvarado, heading NE, until you see another stairway, in the Alvarado Median, going up.
                                Climb the stairs and turn left, continuing northeast on Alvarado, turn left at Aaron, go down the hill to Glendale, then right and take Glendale two streets up the hill to Clifford St. Across from you and to the right will be a railing leading to an under-crossing of Glendale Blvd, with stairs.Cross under Glendale, then head SE on Glendale, down the hill, passing Aaron, then turn right onto Effie. The buildings to your right are the former Max Sennett studios where Laurel and Hardy did their interior shots in the 1920s and 30s.This is back in the days before the movie industry relocated to Hollywood. It started out in this area, known at the time as Edendale, which is why the Music Box steps, Descanso and Edendale stairways (Ice Box Steps) were used for location shoots, as they were conveniently close to the Edendale Studios of Sennett and others. Continue up the slight grade on Effie, past the Laurel and Hardy Mural.To your right at the dead end the street is the lower Effie Stairway.

Climb the stairs and at the top turn left onto Mohawk St, and check for the continuation on the upper Effie stairway to your left, on the west side of the street.If it is open, climb it. There may be a removable link on the chain, you can use that to open the lower gate. If the top is locked (most likely), go back down, and follow the main route, down Mohawk to Berkeley Ave. Depending on whether you passed to the top of upper Effie, or not, you either do the Berkeley side-stairs then right on Waterloo St to the stairway upward, then left on Effie and down Coronado to Berkeley, if Upper Effie is locked.

Or you continue on Effie and go down the Waterloo Stairway, then down Waterloo St turning left onto Berkeley to go the opposite direction on the Berkeley Side-stair, then cross the street and turn around an head up Berkeley to Coronado, if Upper Effie is open.

In both cases you end up on Berkeley at Coronado, and will have passed the 7 mile flag on the route. Continue slightly north of west on Berkeley and turn left onto Angelus Ave, you are now entering the Eastern Terrace stairways. At the end of the block is a long stairway. Go down then climb back up!

At the top, turn left and continue down Silverwood Terrace, and at the low point in the road is the first of a pair of down stairways to your left. Go down both stairways.
At the bottom go right on Occidental, pass mile 8, then left on left on Berkeley, and right again onto Silver Lake Blvd, heading northeast. You will pass 3 apartment buildings, and the 4th is green colored, the 5th yellow. Walk between the green and yellow apartments, and you will see a stairway ahead. This is the first of  the Silverwood North, 212 step triple set of stairways.Climb it than jog right on Occidental, and to your left at the crest of the hill is the next stairway in this triple set. Climb it, then jog left on Easterly Terrace, and climb the final set. At the top, you will be on Silverwood Terrace again, and turn left and continue on tothe northeast to do a zig-zag, from Silverwood, left on Effie, left on Effie again then right to come back down to Easterly Terrace heading northeast. Follow Easterly past where Occidental joins, and at the middle of a gentle right bend, look up to the right to see the impressive single 108 step flight of the Easterly/Fanning stairway, now with hearts!
Turn left at the top and continue to Silver Lake Blvd, go left on the near side sidewalk, and walk down the hill to the crosswalk at Van Pelt Dr. Croos tothe other die of Silver Lake Blvd and conti9nue northwest on Van Pelt to West Silver Lake Dr. You ahve reached the Silver Lake Recreation Center, shortly before the 9 mile mark. The rec center has restrooms and water. From the rec center, continue northeast on Silver Lake Dr, and cross the grassy patch up to where Silver Lake Drive meets Redesdale, this is the 9 mile mark. Go up the steep northward hill on Redesdale and continue down the opposite side past Windsor, and bend to the left. In front of you, up the hill is the Redesdale/Landa stairway.I have used this stairway to do some fun panorama scans to make artistic use of its unusual geometric layout, to put a new slant on a stairway photo!

Climb the stairway, then go down the step hill to the bottom, and turn left onto Castle Dr, and continue all the way down past Windsor to Redesdale, and turn right then left onto Silver Lake Dr, then right onto Westerly Terrace. Continue south on Westerly unil you reach Swan Pl to your left at the bottom of a small depression. To your right is the blue ombre painted lower Swan stairway that is the first of a triple set of stairs with 287 up steps, pained by the Artist, Evelyn Leigh. This is the second longest stairway in Silver Lake, after the 295 step Prospect Walk you climbed on the previous segment.Climb all three sets and take time to admire the artwork. At the top, after you catch your breath, veer left and continue downhill on Webster Ave, then left again onto Dillon, and then right onto Effie and go all the way down the steep grade to Redcliff St. Turn left and go straight southwest until you reach the next stairway, just before the road curves, this is the Cicero Stairway.Climb the stairway,and at the top you will have reached the 10 mile mark and the end of this section of the walk.

Miles 10-15: At the top of the Cicero stairway, turn left and take Cicero to Effie, turn right,  then at the next intersection of Effie, Rotary and Dillon, make a 90 degree turn to the left to go down Rotary. After a 90 degree bend to the right, at the bottom of a depression is the start of the down going Effie/Rotary stairway. Note the artwork on the retaining walls.
At the bottom, continue down Effie, then turn right on Westerly Terrace, and take it southwest past Berkeley, and all the way to the top of the hill at Elevado St. Go right on Elevado, and at the bottom of the dip in the road, at left, is the top of the Elevado stairway.Descend the stairway, then turn left onto Hamilton Way, then an immediate right onto Westerly Terrace and won the hill to Sunset. Go right on Sunset and after passing Descanso, you will pass the Ali Mama Cafe and turn right onto the far side walkway. Ahead are the Murray Dr steps, adorned with Piano Keys, care of Corinne Carrey (#StairTempo).

Climb the stairs and at the fork at the top, go right climbing up Murray Dr, passing the 11 mile mark en route. Near the top of the hill to your left is the entrance to the down going Hamilton Murray Stairway.
Go down, then turn right onto Hamilton way, taking it to Micheltorena, then cross the street, turn left, taking Micheltorena down the hill to Sunset. Cross Sunset, and you have reached the lunch stop. There are places to eat in both directions on Sunset. After you finish lunch, resume walking on the Lower Micheltorena walkway which leads to Corinne Carrey’s artwork of stripes and hearts on the lower Michetorena stairway (#StairCandy).The upper flights of this stairway also have tilted hearts.

At the top, cross Larissa and go up the Upper Micheltorena stairway, noting the new stripes, and some older and more worn word phrases on the steps.At the top, do a turnaround and come back down the stairway, and make a right on Larissa, going down the hill. To your left about half way don the hill, between the foliage, are some nice views of the Piano Keys stairway to your left across Sunset, that you climbed shortly before lunch. At the bottom of the hill, where Larissa meets Descanso, look to your right to find the Descanso stairway, that was featured in a “talkie” remake of a classic silent film.

Here is a clip from the the 1945 film, It’s Your Move, featuring the Descanso Dr stairway. For those that may be interested, here is the Full It’s Your Move film. Climb the steps, and at the top, turn left and cross the street (Descanso) and turn right onto Robinson St, continuing around the bend and down hill. At the place where the road straightens out, there is a well hidden stairway to the left, by a hedgerow, often obscured by trash bins.Go down the stairs and turn left, climbing the sidewalk on Dillon over the top and down to Vendome St. In front of you is a 13 step stairway going down across the median.
Go down this stairway then across Vendome to the sidewalk, turn left and walk ahead to the small park just ahead. This is Laurel and Hardy Park. Walk across the park to the far northeast corner and look across to your left. You will see the entrance to the Music Box Steps, labeled with a signpost. Cross to the steps, and recognize that The Music Box Steps were named after the Academy Award winning 1932 Laurel & Hardy film, The Music Box.

There is a bit of movie history that connects the two “talkie” films, The Music Box, and It’s Your Move, as both are remakes of the earlier and very successful 1927 Laurel & Hardy silent film, Hats Off, Directed by Hal Yates. That film was lost, but Laurel and Hardy, with a different Director, James Parrott, changed the story from carrying a washing machine to carrying a music box up the same stairway, and the rest is Academy history. The original director of Hats Off, Hal Yates, also made a “talkie” clone named, It’s Your Move, in 1945, but instead of the music box steps, used the nearby Descanso stairway, and had less acclaimed comedic actors, though the film was still popular for the era. One final note, a Still image reconstruction of Hats Off is available on YouTube. Now that you have absorbed the history, climb the 133 steps and climb the 8 additional wooden steps in the median.

At the top of the wood steps, turn right and go downhill on the sidewalk, then when the median ends, cross over to the opposite side of the street and veer right onto Descanso, passing the 12 mile mark on your way back down to Sunset, turn left again, and continue southeast on Sunset. Next up on the walk is some mural art, so when you reach Reno street, which looks more like an alley than a street, turn right, and when you reach the first cross alley, just ahead and too the right on a garage wall is this wonderful lion, painted by muralist Cecilia Romero.
After taking in the view, turn left and observe that the Alley has it’s own side-stair.
[Photo of Alley Side Stair]
Climb the side-stair and continue on the walkway to Parkman, go left back to Sunset, then right to continue SE on Sunset, taking it 5 blocks up to Coronado St. Turn right, on the near side sidewalk, heading south to the next block, at Marathon, turn left, cross Coronado, and ahead and to the right you will come to the Marathon Stairway.This stairway was used in the movie, LA Story, where Steve Martin “drove” down it as part of his commute short cut! The scene is at the end of this video clip.

Climb the stairway and go to left side sidewalk on Marathon and continue past Waterloo, and the 13 mile mark, then past Rosemont to Mohawk, where the road bends to the left, and follow Mohawk northeast to Sunset. Turn right and follow Sunset to Alvarado, cross to the north side of Sunset, and continue northeast to the stairway above the bridge over Glendale Blvd.
Go down the stairs, then cross Glendale Blvd in the marked crosswalk, and take note of the murals of famous people under the bridge. On he opposite side turn left and continue north, staying to the right at the fork to continue on Lake Shore Ave, then turn right on Montana, and continue east two blocks to Logan St, and cross to the other (north) side of Montana, and continue eastward to Echo Park Ave. Cross at the light and slightly to your left is the Montana West stairway.                                    Climb it, and look to your left past the third home, and there is a dirt walkway that connects to the Fairbanks Pl stairway.Go down the stairs, turn left and walk to Echo Park ave, then left again, and walk south past Sunset, and continue, passing mile 14, to Park Ave. Cross Echo Park Ave at Park Ave and walk south on the sidewalk above Echo Park. You will be heading toward the faux lighthouse. Across from the lighthouse There is a down stairway to your right.

Go down the stairs, and take the main path to your left, and past the lighthouse are restrooms to your left, and beyond the restrooms is a small 13 step stairway leading up to Echo Park Ave.Climb the stairs, and cross the street, turn left and continue north on Echo Park Ave. At the Episcopal Dioceses is a stairway leading upward.Take the stairs through the dioceses to Laguna Ave. Turn left and walk up Laguna, looking to your right, there is a stairway going up the hill on the opposite side of the street.                                 Cross the street and climb the stairs, continue on Crosby Pl to Kensington, turn left and take Kensington to Laveta Tarrace, then turn left again and follow Laveta Terrace all the way north to Sunset Blvd. Cross Sunset at the signal, turn right and look to your left for the entrance to McDuff St, which looks more like a parking lot than a street. Turn left and follow the sidewalk up to a steep stairway with tilted and uneven height steps.                                       Climb the steps, and at the top, go right downhill on Laveta Terrave, and look to your left, to see a very wide, palatial stairway. These were once the selling point for the community above, back in the days when stairs were seen as a value enhancing amenity when walking and streetcars and buses were the main forms of transportation.Climb the wide stairs and turn right at the top, onto Laveta Terrace, then left on Mc Duff, which bends right to become Galveston, which you walk down to Portia St. Turn right onto Portia, and follow the sidewalk, all the way down hill to Sunset, passing the 15 mile mark, and reaching the end of this section of the segment.

Miles 15-20: At Sunset and Portia, cross Sunset to the South side of the street, turn left and in a few steps, there is a gate to your right with the sign saying, Sunset Hill, and behind the gate a stairway.
This is a private elevated walkway with stairs, so please be respectful of the residents, we are allowed to walk there by their good graces, so please don’t make too much noise, and close the unlocked gates behind you. You climb up, cross a walkway to homes, much like the Berkeley stairway you traversed earlier in the Segment, and descend the larger of the two stairways at the end. Back on Sunset, turn right, walk to the near side crosswalk at Douglas, cross Sunset to the north side, turn left, and walk one block to Quintero St. Warning – Quintero is a very steep hill, so take your time and at the top, turn right onto Macbeth, and at the end of the dead-end street is a stairway.
Climb the stairs, and continue to your right on the dirt road, Elysian Park Dr, until you reach the paved part at Douglas St. Turn right on Douglas, and go down the steep hill to Montana, and turn left and climb the step hill to the end of the street, and climb the stairway on the right.

At the top, look to your left to see a marker stone and a stairway up to it. This is the Victory Memorial Grove Marker.

Climb the 9 step stairway to the marker, then go down the 7 step stairway, and turn right to come back to the walkway in the park proper.
[photo of the group on the Mem Grv Pk switchback]

Go down the park walkway (cutting off the switchback erodes the hillside) which is a long switchback, and ends at a 7 step stairway, near a water fountain by the intersection of Elysian Park Rd and Lilac Place.
Walk eastward on Lilac, and look to your right as you pass the end of the row of short poles to your left. You will see the wooden rails of a stairway.

Go down the stairs, being careful since some of the old wood steps are less than perfectly stable. At the bottom, turn left and continue on Lilac to Vin Scully Ave, turn right and go down the hill to Sunset, and Cross Vin Scully on the near side (east side), and head south on Sunset. You will pass a building with a large 1275 street address marking on the left, and set back beyond that building is a long private dead-end stairway serving apartments.  This 65 step stairway is optional. Climb it if you feel like need an extra challenge. Continuing south on Sunset you will also see an opening in a retaining wall with an even longer private dead-end stairway serving apartments that may at one time have gone through to the street above. This stairway is also optional. Continue south on Sunset, passing mile 16 to the next intersection at Marion, and cross Sunset on the near side crosswalk. Once across, continue north, back the way you came on the opposite side of Sunset, and just past the intersection is a stairway to your left, leading up to an elevated walkway, similar to Berkeley and Sunset Hill.Climb the first stairway then go down the next one, back to the sidewalk on Sunset, and continue north on Sunset. When you are across from the first optional stairway on the opposite side, look to your left for a medium sized dead-end stairway. This is also optional. Continue north on Sunset to Innes Ave, to your right, and to the left just past the telephone pole, is a 100 step stairway, the continuation of Innes Ave.
Climb the stairs, taking you into Angeleno Heights, where there is the highest density of Victorian homes in LA. There are also many interesting Craftsman style homes in this area. At the top of the stairway, cross Kensington, and go right on the sidewalk, after passing 3 homes, you will come to an apartment complex that has a central stairway.

Go down the stairway to the alley, and turn right, this alley becomes Ridge Way which you will follow past Douglas, then at the fork, take the right fork with is Wallace Ave, and follow it all the way down the hill past the kink to the left, and at the kink to the right, there is a long driveway with a stairway at the back, to your left.
                                 Turn left and climb the stairway, then right at the top, to go down Edgeware all the way to Bellevue Ave, then turn right. You will follow Bellevue, sometimes as street, and other times as stairs, with some diverson for other stairways, as you work your way west. Continue west on Bellevue past Echo Park Ave and mile 17, observing Echo Park Lake to your right. At the next block at Glendale Blvd, Bellevue becomes a stairway!
Cross the street and climb the stairs, taking the long walkway all the way to Belmont Ave, turn right, and continue to the next block at Clinton St. There is a stairway to your right, going down to Glendale Blvd.
At the bottom, turn left on Glendale, continue to the next stairway at Kent St, and climb it.

Most of the way to the top is a perpendicular stairway, to your left, climb it, cross to the sidewalk, then turn right to continue on Kent St, until you reach Alvarado. Jog left on Alvarado and cross at the signal to the opposite side of Alvarado at the continuation of Kent. Once across turn left and continue southwest on Alvarado past Clinton and Bellevue, and the freeway on-ramp.  To your right is a stairway that is half of an over-crossing pair. Climb the stairway to the bus stop along the freeway and go down the opposite side stairway to the opposite side of Alvarado following the red line path, and proceed under the freeway to the southern pair of stairways and repeat the procedure, up, across, then down following the blue line path northward and cross under the freeway a second time.Once past the freeway, continue north to Bellevue and make a left. After a short block, Bellevue becomes a pale-blue painted stairway on the left side.
Climb the stairway, and continue on the sidewalk of Bellevue up the hill, past Rosemont and at Waterloo, continue on the walkway into the access road to the former Queen of Angels hospital, now called the Dream Center. This hospital was where most LA resident births occurred in the 1930s through 50s.  it was obsolete by the 1980s and is now owned by a youth organization. Continue past the hospital, and the access road becomes a stairway, right at the 18 mile mark.
At the bottom, continue on the left side of Bellevue, heading past 5 blocks to London St. cross London, then veer left and go down the hill and follow the street to the right. When you reach the bend to the left, look to your right for the Reno St stairway.                            Climb the stairs and turn left when you reach Bellevue. Go left on Bellevue, and cross Silver Lake Blvd at the signal, turn left and follow Silver lake Blvd down the hill and cross under the I-101 freeway. After crossing under the freeway, you will cross under a 2nd bridge under Temple St (which you will soon be crossing!).  After crossing under the bridge, look to your right for a stairway, the last one of the day, #80, the Hoover St stairway!
                           Climb the stairs, and turn right onto the sidewalk on Temple, and continue uphill on the bridge, passing mile 19 at the end of the bridge. Continue for another two blocks to Robinson St (yes, this is the same Robinson you were on earlier in the day), turn right and continue two blocks to Beverly Blvd. Turn left on the near side sidewalk, and continue on Beverly for 1/2 mile to the intersection with Rampart Street. Cross Rampart at mile 20, to end at Tommy’s Burgers!  I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a post walk burger!Congratulations, you have reached the end of Segment I, and the segments are easier after this 86/89 stairway monster!  And here is our post-segment selfie at Tommy’s:

Stairway Data Table

Seg#	SS#	SW#	In-300	Zip	Stairway Name	Up	Down
I01	234		F19	90039	El Moran	95
I02	235		F18	90039	Peru St	114
I03	236		F17	90039	Landa St		146
I04	237		F16	90026	N Lemoyne St	132
I05	238		F16	90026	S Lemoyne St		30
I08	239		F10	90039	E Ewing St	129
I09	240		F11	90039	Ewing St N Side-Stair	58
I10	241		F11	90039	Ewing St S Side-Stair		53
I06	242		F14	90039	Oak Glen Pl		58
I07	243		F15	90039	Loma Vista Pl	181
I11	244		F12	90039	Fargo St Side-Stair	17
I12	245		F13	90039	Cove St	198
I13	246		F4	90026	W Donaldson St		25
I14	247		F5	90026	E Donaldson St	143
I15	248		F3	90026	Curran St	129
I16	249		N/A	90026	Cerro Gordo North Side-Stair	18
I17	250		N/A	90026	Cerro Gordo South Side-Stair		24
I18	251		F6	90026	Preston Ave	39
I19	252		F7	90026	E Fargo St		29
I20	253		F2	90026	Baxter St	231
I21	254		F8	90026	Far E Ewing	25	8
I22	255		F9	90026	W Avalon St	125
I23	256		F1	90026	E Avalon St	192
I24	257		E56	90026	E Delta St	125
I25	258		E55	90026	Lucretia Ave		66
I26	259		E54	90026	W Delta St		31
I27	260		E53	90026	Alvarado Median	37
I28	261		N/A	90026	Clifford St PUC of Glendale Bl	22	21
I29	262		E52	90026	Lower E Effie	101
I30	263		E52	90026	Upper E Effie	81
I31	264		E50	90026	Waterloo St		20
I32	265		E51	90026	Berkeley Ave	20	15
I33	266		E49	90026	Angelus St	181	181
I34	267		E47	90026	S Easterly/Sherwood		88
I35	268		E48	90026	S Occidental/Easterly		80
I36	269		E44	90026	Silver Lake/Occidental	33
I37	270		E45	90026	N Occidental/Easterly	76
I38	271		E46	90026	N Easterly/Sherwood	103
I39	272		E43	90026	Easterly/Fanning	108
I40	273		E42	90026	Redesdale/Landa	84
I41	274		E41	90026	Lower Swan Pl	77
I42	275		E40	90026	Middle Swan Pl	110
I43	276		E39	90026	Upper Swan Pl	100
I44	277		E38	90026	Cicero Dr	90
I45	278		E37	90026	Effie/Rotary		82
I46	279		E36	90026	Elevado St		102
I47	280		E35	90026	Murray Dr (Piano Keys)	90
I48	281		E34	90026	Hamilton/Murray		83
I49	282		E33	90026	Lower Micheltorena	109
I50	283		E32	90026	Upper Micheltorena	96	96
I51	284		E31	90026	Descanso Dr	138
I52	285		E28	90026	Dillon/Robinson		66
I53	286		E29	90026	Dillon St		13
I54	287		E30	90026	Music Box Steps	133
I55		86	N/A	90026	Descanso Median	8
I56	288		N/A	90026	Garcia Alley Side-Stair	10
I57	289		E27	90026	Marathon St	60
I58	290		E26	90026	Glendal/Sunset		40
I59	291		E25	90026	W Montana St	89
I60	292		E24	90026	Fairbanks Pl		27
I61		87	E23	90026	Echo Park Lake NE		13
I62		88	E22	90026	Echo Park Lake SE	13
I63		89	E21	90026	Church Stairway	24
I64	293		E20	90026	Crosby Pl	85
I65	294		E19	90026	McDuff St	74
I66	295		E18	90026	Laveta Terrace	55
I67	296		E17	90026	Sunset Hill	35	22
I68	297		E16	90026	MacBeth St/Elysian Park Dr	10
I69	298		E15	90026	E Montana St	11
I70		90	E14	90026	Victory Grove Memorial NW	9
I71		91	E13	90026	Victory Grove Memorial SE		7
I72		92	E12	90026	Lilac/Victory Grove Mem WW		7
I73	299		E11	90026	Lilac Median		24
I74	300		E10	90026	Sunset/Marion	12	11
I75	301		E9	90026	Innes Ave	100
I76		93	E8	90026	Ridge Way/Kensington		18
I77	302		E7	90026	Wallace Ave	59
I78	303		E6	90026	Glendale/Bellevue	55
I79	304		E5	90026	Clinton St		88
I80	305		E4	90026	Kent St	66
I81	306		N/A	90026	I-101 North POC of Alvarado	38	39
I82	307		N/A	90026	I-101 South POC of Alvarado	45	39
I83	308		E3	90026	Alvarado/Bellevue	87
I84	309		E2	90026	Coronado/Bellevue		92
I85	310		E1	90026	Reno St	66
I86	311		E0	90026	Hoover St (Bridge Stairs)	30
*I87			N/A	90026	Sunset Apartment Stairway #1	65	65
*I88			N/A	90026	Sunset Apartment Stairway #2	114	114
*I89			N/A	90026	Sunset Residential Stairway	47	47
					Total Stair Steps —>	5,007	1,970
					Total Stair-Streets —>	78
					Tot Non Stair-Street Stairs >	8
					Total Steps w/Options —>	5,233	2,196
					Total +Opt Non Stair-Sts >	11