Secret Stairs: East Bay: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Berkeley and Oakland (Revised September 2020)

Revised and Updated in September 2020!


The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California—more than 400 paved pathways and public staircases lattice up and down the slopes of Berkeley and Oakland alone. Rising high above the city centers, with towering views of the San Francisco Bay, the Bay Bridge, and San Francisco itself, these elegant civic walking trails—many of them shaded in oaks and redwoods, and many unknown even to l...