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Mount Oliver

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

Mount Oliver
Mount Oliver · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    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.

    3.1 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; home to the Pittsburgh Penguins · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.4 km · arena in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.8 km · Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.9 km · colonial fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    U.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
  6. 06
    BNY 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
  7. 07
    PPG 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
  8. 08
    Fort 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
  9. 09
    Gulf 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
  10. 10
    Frick 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

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 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 Oliver
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · $17–24
  • Columbus → Mount Oliver
    261 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $24–33
  • Dulles → Mount Oliver
    271 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · $31–42
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    579 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,002 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,547 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,636 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,779 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mount Oliver

Mount Oliver is 3 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.