Architectura 1: Rose Walk by Maybeck Traditional Cache

The coordinates lead you to the entrance of this famous walkway. The cache will be found beyond the entrance waypoint in the vicinity of the top of the last set of stairs.


The cache will be found beyond the beginning coordinates in the area at the top of the last set of steps, (there are forty steps, in two sets of twenty, separated by a long concrete walkway/sidewalk) Go to the top of the steps at the end of the walkway. It will interesect into a sidewalk where you have to choose left or right. Don't choose one OR the other. You do not have to go far, once you reach the top, or go on private property, or bushwack anywhere. Please replace carefully to prevent unintentional discovery. The cache is a square camouflaged 26 oz. plastic container with round lid. It contains a log book and trading items.

A great little hidden architectural gem, designed by famed Berkeley architect Bernard Maybeck. Maybeck designed Rose Walk as a public thoroughfare in a 1912 development of the property of W. W. Underhill. Rose Walk connects a portion of the hillside area with a street which is serviced with public transportation; private walks to residences blend with the public way 'in an immense garden with nothing to show that it is not all one owned by each.'

Maybeck's Description:
"Sooner or later cities will express the highest spiritual life and power that they are capable of. Through the spirit of self-preservation and in mutual protection the individuals will group themselves and in their combined efforts they will do those things that safeguard their holdings and in doing so they will develop the best they know for the welfare of the city." —Bernard Maybeck, 1920. from Kenneth H. Cardwell. Bernard Maybeck: Artisan, Architect, Artist. p189.