SF: Switchbacks and Stairs

🚶 3 km · 📍 5 stops · ⏱ ~150 min

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Russian Hill → Telegraph Hill → North Beach (3 km, ~2.5 h, plenty of steps downhill). Starts where the Powell-Hyde cable car drops you on Lombard St; ends a 5-minute walk from Chinatown.

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