Pittsburgh Steps

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Target climb: 600 ft Stay within: 1 mi of start

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Data

Where the data comes from

Staircases, step counts, photosCity of Pittsburgh, via the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center: City of Pittsburgh Steps. 1,128 segments, joined by street into staircases.

Step counts, second sourceCity of Pittsburgh steps map layer, 739 stairways: PittsburghSteps.

ElevationUSGS 3D Elevation Program, 1-meter lidar elevation model, Western Pennsylvania 2019. A ground profile every 5 m along every staircase, plus the hillshade and 3D terrain.

Streets and paths© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), for the map and for walking routes. Map tiles from OpenFreeMap.

Counts and contextBob Regan, The Steps of Pittsburgh (2004): 712 stairways, 44,645 steps, 24,108 vertical ft. Bob Regan, Pittsburgh Steps (2015): 739 sets.

How climb is counted: steps × 0.54 ft (Regan’s citywide average step), split by direction and never more than the lidar shows the ground rising. Landings and sloped walks don’t count. Where no step count exists, the lidar climb is used and labeled.

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