Walking the Steps of Cincinnati : A Guide to the Queen City’s Scenic and Historic Secrets

Walking the Steps of Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City’s Scenic and Historic Secrets is a revised and updated version of Mary Anna DuSablon’s original guidebook, first published in 1998. This new edition describes and maps thirty-four walks of varying lengths and levels of difficulty around the neighborhoods of Cincinnati, following scenic or historic routes and taking in many of the city’s more than four hundred sets of steps. Some of these walks follow the same routes laid out by DuSablon in the first edition of the guide; others have been revised to reflect changes in the city and its neighborhoods, the physical condition of the steps, and the scenic views of Cincinnati that they afford; and still others are altogether new. In writing their descriptions of the walks, authors Connie J. Harrell and John Cicmanec have retraced each path and taken all new photographs of the steps as well as architectural and natural landmarks along the way. Cartographer Brian Balsley has drawn a fresh set of maps, and Roxanne Qualls, vice-mayor of Cincinnati, has graciously written a new foreword. During The Nineteenth Century, Various Basin And Hillside Neighborhoods In Cincinnati Were Linked By Over Thirty Miles Of Steps--along Cliffs With Extraordinary Panoramic Views And Through Ravines Of Stunning Beauty. Visitors Who Marvel At Cincinnati's Seven Hills Never Realize That They Can Actually Be Conquered On Foot. And While Almost All The Stairs Are Regularly Used By Schoolchildren, Runners, And Some Commuters, Even Native Cincinnatians Have Been Unaware Of The Steps In Neighborhoods Other Than Their Own. Until Now. Complete With Easy-to-follow Maps And Directions, Walking The Steps Of Cincinnati Is A Field Guide That Will Introduce Readers And Walkers To Over Two Hundred Sets Of Steps Within Thirty-five Urban And Neighborhood Trails. Each Trail Is Distinctive, Designed In A Circular Or Figure-eight Fashion. While Some Walks Are More Physically Challenging Than Others, Each Route Is Less Than Four Miles In Length. All Are Rewarding, Many Revealing Views And Historic Information Seen Only From These Unique Vantage Points. Mary Anna Dusablon Is The Author Of America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, The Politics, The Recipes (ohio, 1994) And Cincinnati Recipe Treasury: The Queen City's Culinary Heritage(ohio, 1989).