The hook
A wooden footbridge from 1912 hangs on steel cables over a wooded canyon in the middle of San Diego, and it sways when you walk across it.
01Why it's worth it
Locals call it the Wiggly Bridge. It's three hundred and seventy-five feet of plank walkway strung from suspension cables seventy feet above Kate Sessions Canyon, built in 1912 by Edwin Capps, a two-time city mayor, so that people on one side could reach the streetcar line on the other. It didn't need to be lovely and it is anyway. The deck is light enough that it bounces and rolls under your steps and in the wind, which is either delightful or unnerving depending on how you feel about heights, and the whole thing floats through the treetops of a green canyon you'd never guess was tucked into the Bankers Hill blocks around it. It takes five minutes and costs nothing.
02How to experience it
It's in Bankers Hill, just north of downtown, about eight hours from the Bay. Park on the street along Spruce and walk out and back; if you want the canyon too, there's a path down below. Go on a weekday morning if you want it to yourself, since photographers prize an empty deck.