Adah’s Stairway
Since 2013, we’ve worked with thousands of volunteers and neighbors to design, build, plant, and maintain this beautiful public garden.
Local treasure Adah Bakalinsky, now deceased, is the project’s namesake and author of ‘Stairway Walks in San Francisco.’
We host monthly workdays and community celebrations, like this workday with neighbors, staff, interns, and students.
Adah’s Stairway is a great civic space that honors local walking advocate, Adah Bakalinsky and enhances the connection for wildlife between Buena Vista Park and nearby neighborhoods.
Adah’s Stairway is a bird habitat sanctuary as well as a haven for walkers and those who want to sit and soak up some peace. With its stacked Napa basalt walls, coast live oak trees, berry-producing shrubs, and flowering perennial plants, it’s a source of nourishment for birds that frequent nearby Buena Vista Park.
Once an overgrown, rubble-strewn, and hazardous public place, Adah’s Stairway is now safe, lush with plants and wildlife, and beautifully designed. Leveraging support and funding from the city, neighbors, and volunteers, we transformed this space by working together. The community has habitat restoration workdays and social events posted on our Events page. Just a few blocks from a route on the Green Connections Plan and along the Double Cross Trail, Adah’s Stairway is a connected place. With the recent addition of a dog fountain, your canine friends will enjoy Adah’s Stairway too!
Location
Adah’s Stairway is located on the south side of Buena Vista Park, at the intersection of Broderick and Waller Streets.
Learn more
Community workdays at Adah’s Stairway are every 4th Saturday of the month. Visit our calendar to RSVP to the next one!