Spring in Our Steps

It’s happening! The reconstruction of the upper Warner Street Steps is finally underway! The rebuilt stairway will reforge a walking connection from West McMicken Avenue to Fairview Avenue for the first time in decades. More so, there will soon be a continuous walking route from Vine Street to the Western Hills Viaduct, as plans to rebuild the Polk Street Steps are underway.

Join us for our signature annual 100+ alleys bike ride — the Alley Ronde! This 30-mile bike ride through several Cincinnati neighborhoods can be ridden for any duration. On-route support is available! We start with coffee and end with beer!

We’ll gather at 9am and ride before 9:30am, starting from Northern Row Park. Our halfway coffee stop is TBD. But we’ll finish off at Northern Row Brewery, where there’s plenty of delicious food and alcoholic/non-alcoholic options!

We’ve led the Alley Ronde: 100+ Alleys Bike Ride for six consecutive years, deriving from our early UBBC collaboration rides (2017, 2018), and the original 100 Alleys Bike Ride (2019). It’s thrilling to continue this tradition for a TENTH year!

Ways to get involved: join us on May 30th to Clean-up the Bartlett St Steps in North Fairmount! After clearance of invasive growth, the City will schedule installation of handrails throughout the corridor and Duke will restore power to the streetlight!

Swipe through the photos below to read how this project came to be and why it’s important today.

Sorry for the late notice! SUNDAY, April 26th—join us for our next bike ride of alleys in Newport, Bellevue, and Dayton, starting at Collective Espresso (Newport) and ending at Wooden Cask Brewing!

2pm gather at Collective Espresso Newport (121 W 10th St)
2:15 roll out
back to Wooden Cask before 4pm

Please remember to bring water—and a lock if you’re planning to hang afterward.

Need a ride?
Cincy Red Bike has a station at Monmouth Street between 9th and 10th Sts, as well as at between 7th and 8th Sts!

Spring in Our Steps is working through the early stages of a process to install an Ohio Historical Marker for the Main Street Steps! At the time it was first constructed, on the former path of the Main Street Incline, it was deemed “the longest series of concrete steps in the United States if not in the world.” It was the first time concrete was used for a stairway of this nature.

First concrete stairway on the site of the first incline railway in Cincinnati. The only stairway with its own improvement fund. Longest stairway built at time of completion. Most risers of any stairway in the city. Yeah, we think that deserves an historical marker. Stay tuned.