Landmark
Filbert Street
Filbert St, San Francisco, CA, USA
Half-block hill pitched at roughly thirty one percent grade, long mythologized as the city's steepest.
This guide to Filbert Street in San Francisco opens with a late-night TV crew sending hundreds of watermelons rolling down the block in 1996, and traces the long-running claim that this half-block, tilted at roughly thirty one percent, is the steepest street in the city. It follows a blogger who set out with a measuring tool to test that reputation against other contenders across town in Bernal Heights. Listen for what the numbers actually turned up, and why the story stuck to Filbert anyway.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.