Easter Sunday: Spring Hill

One of the sad things about hiking the city steps is the all too often experience of being there too late--as if you're one of the last people who'll ever walk this particular stretch of steps.

My hike today took me to the back side of Spring Hill, part of Pittsburgh's North Side. The neighborhoods that inhabit the hillside crevices from East Street at the bottom of the hill to St. John's Luthern Cemetary, Mathias Street and Sunset Avenue at the top are beautiful and tragic, but more than anything, you feel the loss of the once-thriving business community that was lost when I-279 came through in the mid-1970s.

This side of Spring Hill's steps all inevitably lead down to what is now a stretch of road that certainly no one would would want to walk to and the steps show bare the pain of this disuse.

A very nice double set heading down from Bessie to Heim to Gershon.

I had to pull some major Indiana Jones action to get across this break.
Steps to nowhere: above Royal Street.