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Canton Avenue
Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 630 ft (190 m) long (the hill is about 213 feet long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade 21 feet (6.4 m) 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] Additionally, the steepest paved mile by average and maximum grade is Lincoln Gap, Vermont with 15% and 25% respectively.
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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