Pittsburgh Bike Map
Paper or Pixels?
- Our map won the 2008 Print Magazine Annual Design award! Check it out!
- Be sure to check out our Getting Around Pittsburgh page where there’s lots of info on trails, transit, and a guide to bike commuting
Pittsburgh can seem like a daunting place to ride a bicycle for a new cyclist or a newcomer to the city. But it doesn’t have to be. That is our philosophy behind our print and online Pittsburgh Bike Maps. Our city’s beauty, in many ways, stems from our lack of a traditional street-grid pattern, our rivers, and our many hills — three elements that also make riding in the city challenging at times, especially since these geographic components provide most of our neighborhood connections. Our maps are designed with the commuter and urban explorer in mind, in hope that folks can learn the easiest and safest routes to traverse our landscape, as well as explore some new territory.
The last on-street bike map produced in Pittsburgh came out in 1992 — back when Sophie Masloff was Mayor. In 2007 we changed that with the release of the print edition of the Pittsburgh Bike Map. Now, using the latest online map technology, people can access our map from anywhere in the world.
We identify the best routes for cycling and connecting neighborhoods, the car-free trails, as well as the less-than-ideal, yet unavoidable stretches of road as “Cautionary Bike Routes.” We also have a separate safe cycling section so riders can familiarize themselves on how to stay safe while riding a bike in Pittsburgh.
In addition to all of the information on the print map, the online version contains information about crossing bridges, an expanded notes and landmarks section, the opportunity to view the routes in terrain and satellite mode, and user-submitted crash information. The latter is useful to cyclists so that we can track patterns, learn from others, and communicate about problem areas. We also encourage the City to use this information to help guide them in improving the safety of all of Pittsburgh’s road users.
Click on the images above to find out more about Bike Pittsburgh’s mapping projects.
Thanks to the Heinz Endowments for providing the funding for this project, and to DeepLocal for doing such an excellent job designing our maps!
Note: please send comments to map@bike-pgh.org
