Canton Avenue


Canton Avenue, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Beechview neighborhood, is the steepest officially recorded public street in the United States.
Canton Avenue is long and is claimed to include a 37 percent grade feet long. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is the world's steepest street with a gradient of 34.8 percent.
In March 2016, the street 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.