Canton Avenue is a street in

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's Beechview neighborhood which is the steepest officially recorded public street in the

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. Canton Avenue is long (the hill is about 213 feet long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade long. The Guinness Book of World Records says

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, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is the world's steepest street 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 nine meters long and

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Road has sections as steep as a 45% grade. Th
''National Map''
says the steep 213 feet of Canton Avenue averages less than 30%. The map's elevations can be off by a foot or two; probably Pennsylvania's LIDAR surveys done in the last few years can do better. Google Earth says the street averages 29% for 212 feet. In March 2016 Canton Avenue was the subject of a commercial, featuring freeskier Bene Mayr,

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Heikki Sorsa, downhill mountain biker

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, and racing driver

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for the Audi Quattro A4 automobile. CantonAve Top

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Canton Ave on OpenStreetMap

Canton Ave on Google Maps

Video of Canton Ave on YouTube
Streets in Pittsburgh {{Pennsylvania-road-stub

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