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Neighborhoods of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States

Hill District

The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hill District
Hill District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. Despite its cultural and economic vibrancy, in the mid-1950s a substantial area was slated for redevelopment, displacing about 8,000 individuals.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hill District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Pittsburgh

    The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and over 31,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

    2.2 km · state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools.

    3.1 km · private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    PPG Paints Arena

    PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. It previously was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League from 2011 to 2014.

    1 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; home to the Pittsburgh Penguins · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Acrisure Stadium

    Acrisure Stadium, formerly known as Heinz Field, is a stadium located in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It primarily serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the Pittsburgh Panthers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The stadium opened in 2001 as Heinz Field, following the controlled implosion of the teams' previous home, Three Rivers Stadium.

    3.1 km · American football stadium that is home to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Panthers · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    PNC Park

    PNC Park is a baseball stadium on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth location to serve as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates.

    2.2 km · baseball stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History

    The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896.

    2.5 km · natural history museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Civic Arena

    The Civic Arena, formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena, was a multi-purpose arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League franchise, from 1967 to 2010.

    1 km · arena in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Duquesne University

    Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, commonly shortened to Duquesne University, is a private Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, or Spiritans, founded the institution in 1878 as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost.

    1.5 km · Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Carnegie Museum of Art

    The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum was originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was located at what became the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

    2.6 km · museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Fort Duquesne

    Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

    2.7 km · colonial fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hill District

Airports
Pittsburgh (PIT), 22 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 190 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 252 km
Stations
Union Station, 1 km
  • Cleveland → Hill District
    11 km · quickest by road, 31 min · $1–1.5
  • Columbus → Hill District
    2990 km · quickest by road, 51h 11m · $280–385
  • Dulles → Hill District
    19 km · quickest by road, 39 min · $2–2.5
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hill District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hill District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.

From Wikivoyage: Pittsburgh, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    578 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,000 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,550 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,640 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,783 km

If you know how people move in Hill District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hill District

Hill District is 1 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.