La Mesa Sercret Stairs
Adventure Lab bonus cache
For those looking for stair stepping exercise in San Diego County, there are actually several options for a cardio workout: The San Diego Convention Center has about 100 steps; the “Catwalks” of Rolando Village are 8 neighborhood paths with various stairs and pathways; the amphitheater on Mt. Helix has concrete steps; Swami’s Beach and Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve have steps leading to the beach; South Fortuna Mountain in Mission Trails Regional Park has some challenging steps up to the summit; and Cabrillo National Monument offers steps below the lighthouse. However, one of the most delightful series of steps is found in La Mesa and is known as the Secret Stairs, with a total of 489 steps in seven segments. La Mesa is one of the few areas in the county that offers a system of public stairways.
Sections of the public stair trails of La Mesa’s Mount Nebo were originally constructed over 100 years ago to provide easy foot traffic to the neighborhood. The first two sections (44 and 16 steps) between Fairview Avenue and Vista Drive were constructed about 1912 or 1913.
(Credit - San Diego Reader - July 3, 2018 - La Mesa’s secret stairs to peak of Mount Nebo
Note: cache is not located at the published coordinates. The five stages on the Adventure Lab will take you to various segments of the stairs. In order to find the cache, you will need to visit five locations in the official AL app. At each, you will answer a specific question and receive information for the final location. You can visit the stops in any order; and when you finish the Adventure, you will have sufficient information to obtain coordinates for this bonus Mystery Cache.
Also Note: the secret stairs is located in an active community; please show proper respect at all times.
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