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Whitaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning the white acre, also spelled "Whittaker" and "Whitacre." Notable people with the surname include:

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The place

Whitaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning the white acre, also spelled "Whittaker" and "Whitacre." Notable people with the surname include:

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whitaker

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
    St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cathedral

    St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cathedral is the mother church of Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.

    2.8 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kennywood

    Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway.

    2.5 km · amusement park in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Calvary Catholic Cemetery

    Calvary Catholic Cemetery is located at 718 Hazelwood Avenue in the Greenfield and Hazelwood neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1886 with the purchase of a 200-acre tract.

    3.9 km · cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Carnegie Free Library of Braddock

    The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is the first Carnegie Library in the United States. As such, the library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, following its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation's List of Historic Landmarks.

    2.1 km · Carnegie library in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Nicholas Carpatho-Rusyn church

    St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, also known as St.

    2 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Union Railroad Port Perry Bridge

    The Union Railroad Port Perry Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Pennsylvania Union Railroad across the Monongahela River between Duquesne, Pennsylvania and the former town site of Port Perry in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. Industrial pipelines adorn the bridge, conveying coke oven gas produced at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works to the company's Edgar Thomson Steel Works near the north end of the bridge for use as fuel.

    3.4 km · bridge in Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sandcastle Waterpark

    Sandcastle Waterpark is a water park located in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead. It opened in 1989, and is located on a 67-acre piece of land along the banks of the Monongahela River.

    3.2 km · Water park in West Homestead, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Auto Race

    Auto Race, previously known as Auto Ride, is a miniature car ride located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. It was conceived and designed by Harry G. Traver of Traver Engineereing.

    2.5 km · amusement park ride · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bost Building

    The Bost Building, also known as Columbia Hotel, is located on East Eighth Avenue in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States. Built just before the 1892 Homestead Strike, it was used as headquarters by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and for reporters covering the confrontation.

    1.7 km · building in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Carnegie Library of Homestead

    The Carnegie Library of Homestead is a public library in Munhall, Pennsylvania founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide, 1,689 of which were built in the United States.

    1.5 km · library in Munhall, Pennsylvania, United States · 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 Whitaker

Airports
Pittsburgh (PIT), 31 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 200 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 259 km
Stations
Roslyn, 2.3 km
  • Cleveland → Whitaker
    195 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · $18–25
  • Columbus → Whitaker
    269 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · $25–34
  • Dulles → Whitaker
    263 km · quickest by road, 5h 58m · $29–40
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whitaker

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 Whitaker. 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

    570 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

    2,548 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,637 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,781 km

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Around it

Next door to Whitaker

Whitaker is 10 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.