This one starts at practically the water’s edge of Lake Union and works around to hike up nearly 600 stairsteps onto upper Queen Anne Hill via the east side of Galer Ave W. I even begin to head down over 200 stairsteps on the west side of the hill but ran out of real estate. I admit I lost track of exactly how many stairs I took and I hope you’ll forgive me for not double checking! If you have driven along Westlake Ave along Lake Union or along that section of Aurora Ave, you’d have seen the bridges but maybe you didn’t know where they went or what streets they connected to. Wonder no more! Enjoy!

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• Start Address: Fairview Ave and Roy St

• Stop Address: W Galer and 11th Ave W.

• Mileage: 2.34 miles

• Animated map: here

• Difficulty/Terrain: Rough one. Almost 600 steps up and over 200 down. No ramps for that.

• Ascent: 528ft, Descent: 331ft.