Once there, dine at the five-star LeMont Restaurant for a scenic overlook at one of the nation's most beautiful settings for a city.
Posted on 04/23/2011 11:02:15 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Heinz Hall
http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/home+page/home+page
Vincent’s Pizza Park in Forest Hills for pizza to die for...
http://thevincentspizzapark.com/
five stars for quality
I give it 20. It will spoil you for pizza forever!
AND, if you feel like driving a little,
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water
http://fallingwater.org/
Ohiopyle State Park Rapids, falls, bike trails, natural waterslide
http://www.fay-west.com/ohiopyle/
Jumonville Cross
http://www.thecross-photo.com/The_White_Cross_located_at_Jumonville_in_Hopwood_PA.htm
Various Revolutionary War Battlefields and forts.
Ft. Necessity, Braddock’s Inn, etc.
Nemacolin Woodlands, golf, stables, tennis, swimming, spas
http://www.nemacolin.com/
LOTS to do in and around Pittsburgh. People who live there don’t think bout.
Once there, dine at the five-star LeMont Restaurant for a scenic overlook at one of the nation's most beautiful settings for a city.
...Pittsburgh is after all, the "three rivers" city and it's a great way to familiarize yourself with the city and maybe identify some places you'd like to go later on by yourself.
When I first brought my (now ex-) wife home from Korea, I took her on one and she absolutely loved it. Our tour guide was exceptionally knoweldgeable about the city history and trivia and pointed out stuff I'd never known, having grown up in the area.
Enjoy your trip!
Thank you!!! For thinking of visiting my home town...you really will enjoy the Burgh (and you were correct about the smarta$$ comments).
Plan for a weekend that the Pirates are in town; tickets are readily available (no need to go to StubHub, et al.) PNC Park is truly a ‘cathedral of the game’ and the skyline vista of the ‘Dahntahn’ skyscrapers is awesome (a ‘fireworks’ night game is spectacular!!!). Also on Pittsburgh’s North Shore is Heinz Field (they do tours there); the Rivers’ Casino; the Warhol Museum; the Carnegie Science Center. If you venture across the Allegheny River eastward to the Oakland neighborhood (University of Pittsburgh campus) you will find the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (fantastic dinosaur rooms); along with the Nationality Rooms (classrooms) in the Cathedral of Learning (Pitt). Sort of in between you will find, in the Strip District, Primanti’s (original) Restaurant.
Even with Bucco tickets; gaming at the Casino (great restaurants there too!) hotel; etc., you will not spend anywhere near what you will in DC or NYC.
Enjoy, please FReep Mail me any ? or you thoughts after the visit.
The Duquesne Incline is a must-take a camera. Also, it has the best restaurants in P’burgh.
And, while in the Strip District, try Pamela’s P&G Diner, and Deluca’s (for the Steel City Breakfast of Champions).
Oh, yeah-stay out of the Hill District. The “Amish”, doncha know...
Lotsa ethnic neighborhoods in P’burgh...
Your ratings are so old they list the Montreal Expos and Olympic Stadium.
Just saying.
http://www.visitpittsburgh.com I think has some ideas
Ft Pitt museum, nr the “Point”
The inclines
Carnegie Museums
If you’re into art, the Warhol Museum on north side
PNC Park: “Nice park, shame about the team”
The duck tour (took last yr). Quack, quack, quack!
Buca di Beppo in Station Sq. I had Primanti Bros. at the ballpark—kinda lukewarm but you may have better luck
at the regular restaurants themselves.
I’ll have to check out Ohiopyle State Park. I did go to Raccoon Creek State Park, NW of downtown, not bad
I go to Pitt. every year for a cartoon convention.
Oh there’s also John Heinz History Ctr., named after the
first hubby of Ta-ray-za. Some interesting stuff there
http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/
Oh, and you’ll have to poss.take in the accents and slang of the locals. Yinz gonna go dahntahn to watch the
Picksburgh Stillers at a bar? Don’t be a jag-off
PNC Park has been voted many times best ball park in America. LMAO @ Cleveland folk thinking that Jacob field is an attraction on the same level as PNC Park .
There are several nice restaurants on MT Washington offering spectacular views of the city. I believe the Tin Angel is offering a special all this year as part of their anniversary.Just take thie Duquense Incline up to the top and go to your left. Georgetown inn is to your right.
The Strip district on a Saturday or Sunday morning is divine. Lot's of great food. DeLuca’s for Breakfast.
I enjoy seeing the negative comments from Bitter Ravens fan. Your tears are oh so sweet.
Pittsburgh has streets and avenues, but there is absolutely NO logical design to the layout. Do NOT expect streets to go one way and avenues to go another.
I wandered around downtown Buffalo at 3:00pm last Monday. It’s like visiting an architechture museum: visually interesting but dead as a doornail. Where are the people?
Station Square would be a nice place to stay (there is a great Sheraton there). You can take a boatride across the rivers (the Allegheny and Mongahela ‘meet’ to form the Ohio at Pittsburgh’s Point State Park) to the Pirate game...take the boat back to Station Sq. Take the Mon Incline up Mt. Washington (to the Georgetown Inn) for dinner if you do an afternoon baseball game.
Good idea. When I’m visiting a large city I’ve never been to before, and don’t know anyone local who might want to show me around, I find those “touristy” guided tours a great way to get a quick overview of the city. I’m never disappointed with the experience.
My favorite thing to do, when picking anyone NOT a local up at the airport, is the drive thru the Ft. Pitt Tunnel...at dusk is best...for the ‘wow’ factor.
Remember when the G20 was held in Pittsburgh...I remember Carla Bruni, when arriving at the Phipps Conservatory (there they had a dinner for all of the swells) remark ‘wow’ when she saw the architecture.
And...I feel like the Chamber of Commerce here...there is NO way that Jacob’s Field in Cleveland can hold a brewski to PNC. Not close.
Every winter when I drive home from Louisiana, I try to time my arrival so I come through the Ft. Pitt Tunnel shortly after sunset :-) It never fails to give me pause.
Check out he Hofbrauhaus brewery and beer garten.
Use to live there, some of my old haunts ;)
Bottom line, PNC is a fine ball park, and a good destination in Pittsburgh.
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