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jrompola · Sep 12, 2017

PittAlum86 said: ↑

I recommend the Duck Boat Tour (www.justduckytours.com) if it is running when you are there. I was looking for things for my wife (from NC) to enjoy to offset the time I wanted to spend touring the stadium and pissing on the Browns at Bettis's. She loved it and I actually learned some things about Pittsburgh. Seeing the stadiums via the river was very cool as well.

I never see anyone mention this for a visitor's to-do list.
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Go to a game every year since 2006 or so and will try this out this year with the fam. Thanks for the recommendation. Done everything else on the list

BigBensBigBong · Sep 12, 2017

jeh1856 said: ↑

There are usually a couple of post requests for the same things each year. I've cut and pasted some responses here, and found a bunch of old links. Then I saved it as a document that can then be added en mass. Maybe this would be a good starter for a permanent post?

Things to do:

Ride the Duquesne incline.

Ride a gateway clipper boat.

Tour the strip district.

If you are staying for days, the Carnegie museum is good.

Carnegie Science Center

Highmark SportsWorks

National Aviary

Children's Museum

View of Pittsburgh along Mount Washington

The Great Hall at Heinz Field

Phipps Conservatory

Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium

Stadium Tour

Kennywood (In season)

The Strip District:

Shopping area along Penn Avenue and Smallman Street from 16th to about 22nd. Produce, fish, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Steeler Gear, restaurants, etc. It was where the produce yards were years ago. It's a strip of land between the river and a hill.

Fun to walk around on a Saturday. Most shops shut down midafternoon.

Things to eat: Cheese Steak at Primanti's, fish sandwich at Wholey's, meat on a stick from Chinese street vendors, tacos at Reyna, Enrico Biscotti, clams, shrimp, oysters at Roland's.

Parking can be a challenge. Best chance is on Smallman Street and totally avoid Penn Avenue.

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http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/1st-trip-to-heinz-need-advice-please.14410/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/day-trip-help.15695/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/please-help-with-trip-for-steelers-game.14977/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/first-trip-to-heinz.12708/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/first-trip-to-da-burgh.12439/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/pittsburgh-trip-this-weekend.4129/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/few-questions-about-trip-to-pittsburgh.3822/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/trip-to-pa-august-28th-through-sept-5.2835/

http://thesteelersfans.com/forums/threads/trip-to-the-burgh.2230/
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I think the info on this post needs to be a forum of it`s own and a convenient link put on the "Steelers Talk" page to get to it.

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