Botanical garden · North Fayette Township, Allegheny County
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Former coal-mining land west of the city, being healed into a botanic garden of woodland walks, display gardens and a lotus pond fed by treated mine water.
What you will find
- Garden
- Hiking trails
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Montour Trail
Arcing through the countryside west and south of Pittsburgh, a long crushed-stone rail trail with tall trestles, old railroad tunnels and a link toward the Great Allegheny Passage.
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Duquesne Incline
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.
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Kamin Science Center
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.
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Fort Pitt Museum
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.
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Monongahela Incline
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.
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Point State Park
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.
