While driving on U.S. 60 from Phoenix to Albuquerque last week, we passed through the old copper mining towns of Miami and Globe, Arizona. Wondering if they had stairs like Bisbee, we stopped in at the Globe-Miami visitor’s center to find out.

When I asked if there were public stairways, the people working at the center didn’t know what I was talking about. When I repeated the question, someone mentioned that there are some stairs in Miami where people have an annual stair climb. Continue Reading →

If you read Other Stairs, Other Places in The Gentle Art of Wandering (page 57); you know that Bisbee, Arizona has several public stairways.

Bisbee is an old copper mining town in the mountains of southeast Arizona. Because the town is built in a narrow mountain valley, many of the houses in the older part of town are on hillsides. Over time stairs were built to make it easier to get around. Continue Reading →