Seattle Stair Walkers Meetup Group

⤵️ Route:
228 Steps Up
419 Steps Down
5 Miles
Moderate Difficulty

🖊 Description:
This 5 mile walks takes you to two totally different parks, and of course includes stairs up and down the lower edge of Lake Washington. The trip can easily be shortened by eliminating the side trip to Kubota Gardens (1.5 Miles) or Lakeridge Park (1 mile) or skipping the most southern stair (1/2 mile). No coffee shops along this route, but you could have a nice picnic at the Hutchinson Playground. The route is mostly through residential areas. Rainier Ave South is an unpleasant busy street, but the stairs up from it have great views over the lake.

THIS WALK WILL NOT BE CONDUCTED LIKE OUR NORMAL WALKS!!!
Usually we wait for the slowest walker so he/she will not be left behind (Our Group Motto: No Walker Left Behind) This is not the case for the Wednesday walks.

These Wednesday walks will be vastly different.
THESE WALKS WILL BE TIMED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL. EVERYONE WALKS AT HIS/HER OWN SPEED TO ACHIEVE A PERSONAL RECORD FOR THE WALK.
PLEASE FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE ROUTE BEFORE THE WALK SO YOU CAN LEAD YOURSELF (if need be)
Results for the Competition Walks will be published monthly.

NOTE: PARKING IS CHALLENGING SO LEAVE EARLY!!!!

⤵️ Route:
Distance: 4 miles
Stairs: 830 Steps Up / 994 Steps Down
Difficulty: Hard
https://faculty.washington.edu/smott/QAguide.pdf

🖊 Description:
THIS IS A MUST-NOT-MISS walk. My very favorite and a little tiny park on the walk has THE BEST VIEW OF SEATTLE (the pic above is NOT 'the' view). Gorgeous architecture and amazing view, plus lots of "secret" stairs

This 4 mile loop goes up and down the most beautiful stairs in Seattle, past lovely homes, and great views over downtown, Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier and the Olympics. Some of these stairs were built a century ago.

Please use a map-tracking app (Strava/Apple Fitness, etc...) to verify your route and time.

🖊 Description:
Come join us as we explore upper Magnolia and the lower Ballard area.
We will discover some lovely Seattle city parks, Magnolia Manor Park and Lawton Park before we go through the Kiwanis Memorial Park Preserve Park, which, by the way, was Seattle's first wildlife sanctuary and once the largest nesting colony of Great Blue Herons.
Leaving the preserve, we will explore the fish ladders at the Chittenden locks. There should be some good fish viewing as the salmon run is in full swing. Departing the locks we will enjoy the Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Garden.
Afterwards, we will visit a few of the many wonderful free exchanges in Ballard. (feel free to bring a toy or craft to donate to the cause)

⤵️ Route:
Distance: 6.84 miles
Stairs: uncounted Steps Up / uncounted Steps Down
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

🖊 Description:
Thistle Street is Officially our little group’s Adopt-a-Street Street. I will have supplies to help us pick up any litter we may encounter.

Thistle is a pretty walk that includes incursions through 2 of Seattle's Parks: Lincoln Park and Fauntleroy Park.
This route will be slightly modified to exclude the beach part due to the tides.
This walk includes the Thistle Stairs, one of the longest continuous stairs in Seattle. So don't let the meager mileage fool ya. You will be challenged on at least this part of the walk.

⤵️ Route:
Distance: 3.6 miles
Stairs: 517 Steps Up / 241 Steps Down
Difficulty: Medium