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Squirrel Hill

Squirrel Hill is a residential neighborhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Squirrel Hill
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The place

Squirrel Hill is a residential neighborhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The city officially divides it into two neighborhoods, Squirrel Hill North and Squirrel Hill South, but it is almost universally treated as a single neighborhood.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Squirrel Hill

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.

    2.7 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.

    1.8 km · private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.4 km · natural history museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.3 km · museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cathedral of Learning

    The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story skyscraper that serves as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Standing at 535 feet, the 42-story Late Gothic Revival structure is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and the second-tallest university building in the world, after the main building of Moscow State University.

    2.6 km · academic skyscraper at the University of Pittsburgh · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Diocese of Pittsburgh

    The Diocese of Pittsburgh is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Western Pennsylvania in the United States. Established in 1843, the diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

    2.5 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Forbes Field

    Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball team, and the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's National Football League franchise.

    2.5 km · stadium in Pittsburgh, PA · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cathedral of Saint Paul

    Saint Paul Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. St.

    2.5 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

    Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden set in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a City of Pittsburgh historic landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

    2.1 km · botanical garden in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district

    Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district is located in the southwestern part of the state and includes all of Fayette County, Greene County, and Washington County, and most of Indiana, Westmoreland, and Somerset counties. It is represented by Republican Guy Reschenthaler.

    1.6 km · U.S. House district for 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.

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Getting to Squirrel Hill

Airports
Pittsburgh (PIT), 27 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 195 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 257 km
  • Cleveland → Squirrel Hill
    1299 km · quickest by air, 10h 34m · $370–540
  • Columbus → Squirrel Hill
    1137 km · quickest by air, 10h 7m · $350–500
  • Dulles → Squirrel Hill
    1081 km · quickest by air, 9h 48m · $320–470
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Squirrel Hill

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 Squirrel Hill. 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

    573 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    996 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,551 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,641 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,784 km

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Around it

Next door to Squirrel Hill

Squirrel Hill is 6 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Swissvaleborough in Pennsylvania3.6 km
  • Edgewoodborough of Pennsylvania3.3 km
  • Oaklandneighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2.9 km
  • Garfieldneighborhood in the east end of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA3.5 km
  • Hazelwoodneighbourhood in Pittsburgh3.6 km
  • Larimerneighborhood of Pittsburgh3 km