Tuesday
Oct182011
Northwest Queen Anne
2 Comments →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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Where exactly in Queen Anne are the stairs with the slide next to it? Is the slide safe to use?
The stairs with the slide next to it (picture 3 in the slide series above) are located just down the sidewalk from the corner of 12th Avenue W and W Howe Street. There's a sign there at the corner that reads "Southwest Queen Anne Greenbelt."
The last time we visited, there was a very rough "use trail" at the bottom of these stairs that meandered on down the slope. This trail isn't pedestrian-friendly, and it seems clear that the stairs were built as part of the slide structure - the way to hoof it back up for another run.