Where is the oldest tourist attraction that you have to climb 99 steps to get to?

dave_fl

Two possibilities here but I have a feeling you're looking for the Austin one. 1st...Climb the 99 limestone steps at Mount Bonnell (Mt. Bonnell Road off W. 35th), Austin's oldest tourist attraction. Rising 785 feet above sea level, Mt. Bonnell is one of the highest points in the city. 2nd possibility...Diamond Head gun emplacements in Hawaii. The U.S. Army of World Wars I and II saw it as a mid-Pacific Gibraltar. Today those abandoned gun emplacements, reached by tunnels and stairs, draw tourists by the thousands for a breathtaking 360-degree panorama from 706 feet up of ocean, mountains and Honolulu cityscape. After a moderately difficult climb up a rocky trail, you reach stairs, then more stairs -- this flight has 99 steps -- then a long, dark tunnel, then an equally dark vertical tunnel with a spiral staircase before reaching the first of several gun emplacements near the crest. Apr 04 00, 1:12 PM

zbeckabee

99 Steps -- Between Hotel 1829 and Government House sits the foot of the famed, steep 99 Steps, a staircase built in the 1700s by the Danes to connect parts of the town. Ironically, there are actually 103 steps, all made of ballast bricks from Danish ships. They lead high to a hill above Charlotte Amalie and the stone remains of an old tower, now part of the Inn at Blackbeard’s Castle complex. http://www.vinow.com/stthomas/attractions_stt/attractions_town.php http://www.wcities.com/en/record/,211663/176/record.html Jan 12 08, 11:56 AM