Walk the Wiggle Tour
Before bikes were invented, the popular Wiggle bike route was a foot trail to avoid these same hills. The very latest research on Mission Dolores suggests that it was founded in the Wiggle. Later, the city expanded to fill the valley with houses, but why? And what was there first?
8:22 PM PST on December 1, 2010
Before bikes were invented, the popular Wiggle bike route was a foot trail to avoid these same hills. The very latest research on Mission Dolores suggests that it was founded in the Wiggle. Later, the city expanded to fill the valley with houses, but why? And what was there first?
Change the way you see the landscape as we talk about everything from art and bike politics to floods, lakes and native societies. A quintessential mix of Thinkwalks themes.
A flat one mile walk (each way).
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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