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+title: "Glen Park Greenway and Burnside Avenue mural and mosaic stairs"
+pubDate: March 3, 2025
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+tags: [san-francisco, glen-park, greenway]
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+San Francisco is a wonderful city for those who like to walk and explore - not just for its large number of well-known tourist attactions, but also because of its many lesser known greenways. Since 2019 the site [crosstowntrail.org][ctt] helps folks explore the city, with a 17 mile beautiful route from [Candlestick Park][candlestick-point] in the southwest of the city to [Lands End][lands-end] / [Sutro Baths][sutro-baths] in the northeast. I really need to tell you more about that at some point, maybe after we've had a chance to re-explore it.
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+![map of Glen Park Greenway](https://i.imgur.com/hPrnOwa.png)
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+One of the new-to-us greenways we discovered when we first did the crosstown trail in 2019 was the [Glen Park Greenway][gpg], a 3-block strip right below Bossworth street from Brompton avenue to Burnside Avenue. If you take the Bart to Glen Park station, you can get to the greenway in a minute and then walk to Glen Canyon Park mostly without any traffic.
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+![pic from entrance of greenway](https://i.imgur.com/3H9eG0e.png)
+After 3 blocks on the greenway you encounter this impossible-to-miss Burnside Avenue mural and the mosaic stairs above it.
+![pic of mural and mosaic](https://i.imgur.com/0ouPddM.jpeg)
+Until [late 2024][sfc] this was just a concrete, partially green staircase to climb to Bossworth street, but now it is yet another reason to explore the Glen Park Greenway - and many other parts of the city.
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+[gpg]: https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/our-work/partners/glen-park-greenway/
+[ctt]: https://crosstowntrail.org/
+[candlestick-point]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Point_State_Recreation_Area
+[lands-end]: https://www.parksconservancy.org/parks/lands-end
+[sutro-baths]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/sutro+baths/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x808587b56c4f30b3:0xe01af746c44bb97e
+[sfc]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/stairs-glen-park-sf-19841575.php