PA Getaway

Funicular · Pittsburgh, Allegheny County

Monongahela Incline

Monongahela Incline
Photo: Suckindiesel at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Opened in 1870 and widely described as the country's oldest continuously operating funicular, it climbs Mount Washington from Station Square to the overlooks on Grandview Avenue.

What you will find

  • Historic features
  • Scenic views

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Fort Pitt Museum

    History museum · 1 miles away

    Inside a reconstructed bastion of the 1760s fort at the Point, exhibits tell the story of the French and Indian War and the struggle for the forks of the Ohio.

  • Point State Park

    State park · 1 miles away

    At the tip of downtown, where the Allegheny and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio, with the great fountain, the Fort Pitt Museum and the 1764 Blockhouse from the frontier fort.

  • Duquesne Incline

    Funicular · 1 miles away

    A cable railway of 1877 climbing Mount Washington in its original wooden cars, with an observation deck looking straight down onto the rivers, the Point and downtown.

  • Andy Warhol Museum

    Art museum · 1 miles away

    Seven floors devoted to Andy Warhol, with paintings, films, time capsules and a room of floating silver pillows to play among.

  • Kamin Science Center

    Science museum · 1 miles away

    Formerly the Carnegie Science Center and renamed the Kamin Science Center in 2025, with hands-on exhibits, a planetarium, a detailed miniature railroad and village, and the submarine USS Requin outside.

  • Heinz History Center

    History museum · 1 miles away

    Western Pennsylvania history in a former ice warehouse in the Strip District, with sets from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and a sports museum full of local legends.