Staircases in Echo Park

Instead of posting routes with pictures of the staircases, I will just post pictures of the staircases.  The streets will be listed as to going up the staircase.

Number of stairs- 39

McDuff Stairs- Sunset Blvd to McDuff St.

74 steps.

LaVeta Stairs- McDuff St. to La Veta Terrace

64 steps.

Fairbanks- This leads to a dirt path that is filled with debris and leads to the Montana staircase.

Steps 28

Montana-This is actually a longer staircase that leads to a locked gate.

Steps- 72

Sunset Blvd.



This may look like a staircase to private house.  But, it's actually a public staircase.   This is a bi-staircase, one that goes both up and down.  There is a long walkway that connects the two staircases.

Sunset Blvd.-West 15 steps

23 steps

21 steps

15 steps

Edgeware-Wallace Ave. to W. Edgeware Rd. 


56  steps

Crosby-Laguna Ave. to Crosby Place.

84 steps.

 Innes Stairs-Sunset Blvd to E. Kensington Rd.

100 steps.

Kent St. Stairs- A unique staircase that starts with 28 steps, followed by a long walkway, then 12 steps, then on your left a staircase that is 26 steps, or if you continue on the walkway, 11 steps, followed by 9 steps.


28 steps

12 steps

11 steps then 9 steps at the top.

26 steps

Clinton St. Stairs-Glendale Blvd to Belmont Ave. A double sided staircase

88 steps

Bellevue East Stairs-Glendale Blvd to Belmont Ave.


55 steps

Bellevue West Stairs-On the west side of Alvarado and Zalvidea St. and goes to Bellevue.

87 steps.

This is the continuation of the Bellevue stairs. Coronado Terrace to Waterloo St.

82 steps. 

Marathon Stairs- Merwin St. to Coronado Terrace.

60 steps.

Reno-Bellevue Stairs-   These stairs go from London St. to Bellevue Ave.

66 steps.

Avalon East- landing at Lucretia Ave.


192 steps

Baxter-landing at Park Dr.


231 steps

Academy Rd. to Morton Place

5 steps

Curran 

129 steps 






Donaldson East- Echo Park Ave to Princeton Ave.

143 steps

Alvarado South- Alvarado to Delta

39 steps

Alvarado St. North- Alvarado St. going south to Alvarado St. going north.

37 steps

 

Ewing-Lake Shore Ave to Alvarado St.


129 steps

Avalon West-Vestal Ave. to Lemoyne St.


125 steps

Baxter St. to Preston Ave.

39 steps.

Echo Park Ave. to Preston Ave.

29 steps

Delta Stairs- Delta to Lucretia Ave.

125 steps

Lucretia Stairs- Grafton St. to Lucretia Ave.

69 steps.

Ewing Stairs-These two staircases are "sidewalk" staircases.  They are on Ewing St. going up from Allesandro St. to Alvarado St.

Southside of Ewing- 55 steps.

Northside of Ewing-

60 steps.

Fargo-A very short "sidewalk" staircase.

19 steps

Donaldson West-Vestal Ave. to Lemoyne St.

25 steps

Ewing Mid-West- Preston Ave. to Vestal Ave.

25 steps up and then 4 steps down.

Landa Stairs-Whitmore Ave to Walcott Way.


151 steps

Peru Stairs-Walcott Way to Whitmore Ave.

114 steps.



Loma Vista East- Allesandro St. to Lake Shore Ave.

140 cement steps and 39 wooden steps.

Oak Glen Stairs- Allesandro St. to Lake Shore Ave.

26 wooden steps and 32 cement steps.

Cove Stairs- Allesandro St. to Alvarado St.

198 steps

Fellowship Park Stairs-A long, often confusing staircase that breaks off into three different areas.  One section, that was mentioned in Fleming's Secret Stairs book is actually private property.

31 steps

14 steps

After those mail boxes.  As you're going towards the 2 freeway, go to your right.  You will see a Y junction and if you stay to your left, you'll find these stairs that will take you to Landa St.

116 steps

At that Y junction if you go right, you will see these 20 steps.  These maybe private stairs but I'm not sure.

Elysian Park Dr. Stairs- Montana St. to Elysian Park Dr.

11 steps

Locked PUBLIC Stairways

There are many locked PUBLIC stairways in the city of Los Angeles. The stairways on this blog are all public stairways, which mean they are, or should be, open to the public!!  Hopefully this blog will inform the public about these locked staircases.  If anybody knows of other locked staircases or the reason why some staircases are locked, please email me.

The questions about these locked public stairways that need to be asked are:

Why are some PUBLIC stairways locked?

Who makes the decision to lock PUBLIC stairways?

Are these locked PUBLIC stairways illegally locked by homeowners and residents who live nearby?

How can the public get the illegally locked staircases, reopened?

Highland Park/ Mt. Angelus

In the Mt. Angelus area of Highland Park, there are five locked staircases that were locked by the city of Los Angeles years ago.  In 2011 neighborhood activitist, Louisa Van Leer, was able to get four of the five locked staircases opened for a day.  The streets and staircases in Mt. Angelus are named after well known activists in the women’s suffrage movement and abolitionists.

This staircase starts at the corner of Figueroa and Piedmont and goes up to Mt. Angelus Place.  The day I went and took pictures the bottom gate, the first picture below, was unlocked.  But, when I took the picture at the top on Mt. Angelus Place, the gate was locked.  I was also informed by Bob Inman, that this staircase is usually opened on Saturdays. 

This staircase goes from Mt. Angelus Place to Mt. Angelus Drive.  As you can see this staircase has been closed for a long time.  Even the top entrance gives the impression there is a house.  But as you can see there is a staircase, behind that locked gate!

The Hosmer staircase goes from Mt. Angelus Dr. to La Follette Dr.  There is another staircase that also goes from Mt. Angelus Dr. to La Follette St, that is open but a mean barking dog welcomes you at the bottom of that staircase.

The Lower Monte Vista staircase goes from La Follette St. to Livermore Terrace.

The Emerson staircase goes from Garrison Dr. to Lamont Dr. Pictured below is the locked staircase at Garrison.

Cypress Park

York Hill Pl to Banbury Pl.

Silver Lake

This staircase starts at Rockford Rd and goes up to Fargo St. Rumors are that this staircase is illegally locked. If this is true, why does the city of Los Angeles allow PUBLIC staircases to be illegally locked?

This staircase goes from Effie to Mohawk and as you can see is locked. When I took this picture at the top of this locked staircase on Effie, some old hag asked me what I was doing. I told her it's none of her damn business. As I was leaving, she told me "The city locked those gates." Well if the city did legally lock that gate, why is she so worried that somebody took a picture of that locked gate? Why didn't she just mind her own damn business? Typical snotty arrogant resident of Silver Lake.

Parkman Ave. and Westerly Terrace

Echo Park

This is the top of the Montana stair case in Echo Park. For some reason this staircase is locked.