If you think the steepest streets in the USA are in San Fransisco, you would be wrong.
A list of the ten steepest streets by an outfit called Infographics rates the Waipio Road in Hawaii, in the historic Waipio Valley, as the steepest, at an astounding 45% angle. That’s steeper than some of the steepest Olympic-level ski slopes!
And according to this list, Los Angeles has more steep streets than San Francisco. And Pittsburgh has two of the top ten.
Be sure to drive, bicycle or walk carefully on any of them, and if you park, be absolutely, positively sure to engage the emergency parking brake before you get out of the car.
Here are the top 10 steepest streets in the USA.
Drive at your own risk.
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San Francisco has more steep streets than the ones which rate as the top ten in the USA. This San Francisco website lists the city’s ten steepest streets.
Pittsburgh sometimes is described as the “San Francisco of the East” because of its many steep streets. This Pittsburgh website lists many of them
This article was posted originally in 2010, and has been revised and updated for 2025.
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter is a journalist with 20+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter, and author of guidebooks and smartphone apps – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.
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