South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association

"Neighbors working together to make the Slopes a more livable, beautiful, and safe community"

StepTrek Route: Gold Route 2024

Gold/West Route 2024

  • Short St. Steps

    Join steps in front of 1808 Short St. Make right and descend 106 steps to Magdalene St.

  • Baldauf St.

    Take left and walk to end of street and Short Street Steps.

  • Huron St.

    Turn right and walk length of street to Yard Way Steps and Winters Playground, one of a series of small parklets on the Slopes that were placed within a 10 minute walk of any home.

  • Yard Way Steps

    Make right and descend 52 steps to Baldauf St. Built in 1944, the stairs drop a total of 314 steps from Shamokin St. above to Pius St. below. They are the longest set of stairs on this side of the Slopes.

  • Oporto St.

    Walk up one block to Huron St.

  • Oporto St. Steps Cont’d

    Cross Magdalene and climb the 125 steps to Baldauf St. To the left was the site of the Sankey brick yard that was active in the Slopes until the 1950s. Many a yard in the Slopes has a stash of Sankey bricks buried in the soil.

  • Oporto St. & Oporto St. Steps

    Make left and ascend left side of street to Gregory St. Then climb the 26 Oporto St. Steps on the left to Magdalene St.

  • Pius St.

    Continue walking one block to Oporto St.

  • S. 18th St.

    Cross at light and keep left on Pius St.

  • Mission St.

    Take left and continue along Mission St. to S. 18th St. That’s South Side Park rising up the hill to your left. On the right, after the first bridge, is the Mission St. pumping station circa 1900, which delivers water into the neighborhood and surrounding area. Continue across second bridge, which was built in 1939 as a project of the Public Works Administration under FDR. An SSSNA initiative brightened this stretch of Mission by replacing existing street lighting with higher wattage lamps.