6th Avenue W & Highland (342)
The stair at 6th Avenue West and Highland Drive is the oldest extant public stair in the City.
At the time it was built the population of Queen Anne Hill was about 10,000. Today the population is around 40,000.
For more than a hundred years, this set of stairs has seen it all.
Present Day View from Highland Drive
Vital Statistics
NUMBER OF LANDINGS
Two
NUMBER OF STAIRS
33
LOCATION:
6th Ave. West just north of West Highland Drive
PART OF CHAIN:
Not part of a Chain
DATE BUILT
1905
STAIR TYPE:
CIP Concrete
DID YOU KNOW:
All of the wide public stairs are on the south side of Queen Anne Hill. The wide stairs tend to be the oldest and were likely designed with more consideration for aesthetics and for more people to use at the same time.
