Pittsburgh has 700 staircases that offer the perfect view for urban hikers

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Pittsburgh has 700 staircases that offer the perfect view for urban hikers
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The most step-rich city in the country, Pittsburgh boasts impressive scenery from its outdoor staircases, originally built for early 20th century steelworkers.

’s unique kind of city challenge. Over 700 staircases climb the town’s steep, surrounding hills, plunging through dense residential neighborhoods and leafy thickets. From “the steps,” as locals refer to them, you can experience sweeping vistas of downtown Pittsburgh that might make you think you’re standing atop one of the peaks in the nearby Allegheny Mountains.

The Kerr Street steps ascend through Pittsburgh’s West End. The old stone foundations of homes become visible during the fall and winter months.in the U.S., with a cumulative estimated height of roughly 24,000 feet—only 5,000 feet shy of the Mount Everest summit. a historic guidebook that brought hundreds of the forgotten stairways back into focus for the wider public, decades after the city had stopped managing the steps and even keeping records of them.

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