Real Crookedest Street in San Francisco
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DougK
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How does one measure a crooked street? Using a combination of sharp turns and steepness traveled, Vermont Street in San Francisco may be the crookedest street in the world.
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Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/16/2012
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How does one measure a crooked street? Using a combination of sharp turns and steepness traveled, Vermont Street in San Francisco may be the crookedest street in the world. Running between 20th and 22nd Streets, Vermont is a hillside with a 14.3 percent grade, five 180 degree turns and two 90 degree turns.
From Wikipedia:
A section of Vermont street between 20th and 22nd Street, near McKinley Square, features a series of seven sharp turns. This has led the street to be dubbed the crookedest in the world in competition with the better-known Lombard Street (Vermont, while steeper than Lombard, has fewer turns). In an episode of Fact or Fiction on the Travel Channel, Jayms Ramirez measured the sinuosity of both Lombard and Vermont streets, and proved that Vermont is indeed more crooked (with a sinuosity of 1.56 versus 1.2 for Lombard Street).
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YouTube video of a drive down Vermont Street appears to be taken with a GoPro-style camera on the helmet of a bicycle rider.
Pedestrians can navigate this steep hillside using the Vermont Street Stairs.