Mount Oliver
Mount Oliver is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mount Oliver is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,394 at the 2020 census. It is a largely residential area situated atop a crest about 3 miles (5 km) west of the Monongahela River. The borough is surrounded entirely by the city of Pittsburgh, having resisted annexation attempts by the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Mount Oliver
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.
- 01PPG 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.
3.1 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; home to the Pittsburgh Penguins · Wikipedia - 02Civic 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.
3.4 km · arena in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia - 03Duquesne 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.
2.8 km · Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 04Fort 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.
3.9 km · colonial fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 05U.S. Steel Tower
The U.S. Steel Tower, also known as the Steel Building, or USX Tower, is a 64-story skyscraper at 600 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The interior has 2,300,000 sq ft of leasable space.
3.4 km · skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 06BNY Mellon Center
BNY Mellon Center is a 55-story skyscraper located at 500 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Standing 725 ft tall, it is the second-tallest building in the city.
3.2 km · skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 07PPG Place
PPG Place is a complex in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consisting of six buildings within three city blocks and five and a half acres. PPG Place was designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee.
3.5 km · building complex in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 08Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania. It was near the site of Fort Duquesne, a French colonial fort built in 1754 as tensions increased between Great Britain and France in both Europe and North America.
3.8 km · fort that was built at the Forks of the Ohio · Wikipedia - 09Gulf Tower
The Gulf Tower is a 44-story, 177.4 m Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The tower is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of the city and is named for the Gulf Oil Corporation.
3.5 km · building · Wikipedia - 10Frick Building
The Frick Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tower was built in 1902 by Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist coke producer who created a portfolio of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh.
3.2 km · skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mount Oliver
- Airports
- Pittsburgh (PIT), 23 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 192 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 251 km
- Stations
- Union Station, 3.7 km · Boggs, 2.1 km · Bon Air, 1.5 km · South Hills Junction, 2 km · Station Square, 2.7 km
- Cleveland → Mount Oliver187 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · $17–24
- Columbus → Mount Oliver261 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $24–33
- Dulles → Mount Oliver271 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · $31–42
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Oliver
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 Mount Oliver. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundBoth inclines are funicular railways that scale the side of the mount.
From Wikivoyage: Pittsburgh/South Side, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Mount Oliver
Mount Oliver is 3 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pittsburgh metropolitan areapopulous region around the city of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania3 km
- South Sideneighbourhood of Pittsburgh2 km
- Bluffneighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2.7 km
- Hazelwoodneighbourhood in Pittsburgh3.9 km
- Allentownneighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1.2 km
- Mount Washingtonneighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2.8 km