Canton Avenue is a street in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood which is the steepest officially recorded public street in the United States.
Description Canton Avenue is long (the hill is about long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade long.
The Guinness Book of World Records uses a section to define the world's steepest street, held by Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, with a gradient of 34.8%. This record is disputed; Pittsburgh news and international media have claimed Canton Avenue is the steepest street in the world.
The United States record is also disputed, as Bradford Street in San Francisco includes a 39% grade long, and Waipio Valley Road in Hawai'i has sections as steep as a 45% grade. Additionally, the steepest paved mile by average and maximum grade is Lincoln Gap, Vermont with 15% and 25%, respectively.
History In March 2016, Canton Avenue was the subject of a commercial, featuring freeskier Bene Mayr, snowboarder Heikki Sorsa, downhill mountain biker Aaron Gwin, and racing driver Mattias Ekström for the Audi Quattro A4 automobile.
See also Baldwin Street Dirty Dozen (bicycle competition)
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Canton Ave on OpenStreetMap Canton Ave on Google Maps Video of Canton Ave on YouTube