Canton Avenue
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Canton Avenue is a street in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood which is the steepest officially recorded public street in the United States.[1][2][3]
Canton Avenue is Script error: No such module "convert". long (the hill is about 213 feet long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade Script error: No such module "convert". long.[4][5][6] The Guinness Book of World Records uses a 10m section to define the world's steepest street, currently held by Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, with a gradient of 34.8%.[7] This record is disputed; Pittsburgh news and international media have claimed Canton Avenue is the steepest street in the world.[8][9][10] The United States record is also disputed, as Bradford Street in San Francisco includes a 39% grade nine meters long[11] and Waipio Valley Road has sections as steep as a 45% grade. [12][13][14][15]
In March 2016 Canton Avenue was the subject of a commercial,[16] featuring freeskier Bene Mayr, snowboarder Heikki Sorsa, downhill mountain biker Aaron Gwin, and racing driver Mattias Ekström for the Audi Quattro A4 automobile.[8][17]
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- ↑ An article in the Pittsburgh Press on 11 January 1987 cites information compiled by the Surveys Division and the Snow and Ice Control Program, Dept of Public Works, that Canton Street has a steepness of 37 percent.
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