What are the seven hills of San Francisco?
What makes these 7 hills so special? Well, Dave’s looked into that.
“We can only guess. I've done some reading and I've never seen anyone say why those particular hills were on the list.”
Lists like the ones found in books, newspaper articles, and travel guides. Dave says the first reference to the list of seven he found was from the ‘20s, a list he read later was confirmed by the city’s archivist. But, San Francisco isn’t the only city of seven hills. Plenty of other cities around the world also claim to be built of seven hills.
“So having seven hills is a thing that cities with hills have and it just naturally occurred to whoever, you know, first thought about hills when they were writing to say, yeah, we have seven hills too.”
And let’s be real, there are a lot more than seven hills in San Francisco. Dave’s says, "I counted seventy-four."
And while I cannot promise you can see all seventy-four from the top of Twin Peaks, I can promise you can see the seven hills of San Francisco.