Public Staircases of Saint Paul Guide Booklet Now Available!

Hot off the presses, I have a new guide booklet completed. It's a real fun one, based on my too-popular staircase tours from last summer and fall. You might recall that I did a tour of public staircases of Cathedral Hill, and MPR plugged it, and over two hundred people came.

And lo! We snaked and wandered up and down the steps of Saint Paul, down culs-de-sac and along fancy sidewalks for miles until the people's desire for staircases was sated. And then a mile or so past that.

And later that year, I did two more tours, completing the cycle of Saint Paul staircases. One was on the East Side and one on the West, and by the time winter had come, I had a pretty good sense of where the staircases of the city were located.

I have complied them all together into this booklet for you. There are a lot of steps in here, grouped into three walking tours.

Here's the blurb:

A 44-page booklet featuring a map, some useful information, rumors, hazy photos, quotations or hearsay, atmospheric speculation, daydream transcriptions, and historical trivia about noteworthy public staircases, past and present, located within Saint Paul, Minnesota. 

Featured staircases offer three (3) walkable tours of public steps, past and present, of the Western Hills (Cathedral, Summit, Crocus), the West Side, and the East Side. These include the Selby Streetcar Tunnel, Walnut Street Stairs, Irvine Avenue Stairs, the Lawton Avenue steps, the Grotto Steps, the 35E steps, the Bancroft Avenue stairs, the Black Bridge, the Green Stairs, the Delos Street Steps, the Yoerg's Staircase, the Ohio Street Stairs, the Bradley Street stairs, the Earl Street stairs, two Swede Hollow staircases, the Rivoli Bluff steps, and the Bates Avenue sidewalk steps. 

Booklet cover features custom staircase artwork by Andy Sturdevant.

Get it at my online store today!

[The totally manageable crowd on the public stairs tour.]