Cities with the sttepest of neighborhood roads. (better, Atlanta, school) - City vs. City - City-Data Forum

BPerone201 · 08-11-2009, 10:13 AM

Steepest*

San Fran is one.. anymore biggies?

lammius · 08-11-2009, 11:14 AM

Pittsburgh is a contender here.

Iconographer · 08-11-2009, 11:50 AM

And Atlanta...many locals know "Devil's Dip" in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood. I had a childhood friend whose mother bore a scar on her cheek from taking that hill too quickly in high school.
And then there is the infamous "Heart Attack Hill" on Peachtree Rd...the undoing of many a runner in the Peachtree Road Race.

johnatl · 08-11-2009, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by BPerone201

Steepest*

San Fran is one.. anymore biggies?

Besides the others mentioned, you can add Seattle, L.A. & San Diego to your list.

johnatl · 08-11-2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

And Atlanta...many locals know "Devil's Dip" in the Virginia-Highlands neighborhood. I had a childhood friend whose mother bore a scar on her cheek from taking that hill too quickly in high school.
And then there is the infamous "Heart Attack Hill" on Peachtree Rd...the undoing of many a runner in the Peachtree Road Race.

Are you talking about Amsterdam Ave. in Va-Hi, Lovin?

Iconographer · 08-11-2009, 12:28 PM

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Are you talking about Amsterdam Ave. in Va-Hi, Lovin?

Indeed. Where Amsterdam, McLynn and Rosedale all come together. It almost looks like you're dropping off a cliff when you approach it from above.

grapico · 08-11-2009, 12:32 PM

SF streets are pretty notorious... 900 feet high, 30% gradient... yeowch.

I remember Chattanooga, TN having a couple of big ones too...

Iconographer · 08-11-2009, 12:42 PM

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I remember Chattanooga, TN having a couple of big ones too...

Very much so...two of its' major suburbs, Lookout Mountain and Signal Mountain, are just that...mountains.
All the 'Piedmont Cities' in the SE are hilly...Birmingham, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Raleigh-Durham.

blkgiraffe · 08-11-2009, 12:42 PM

In Waco we had Mockingbird Hill, Cherry Hill, and Cedar Mountian.

Mockingbird was two steep hills back to back, but what sucks is it has damn speed bumps!

Around Lake Waco is pretty bad too; you better have good brakes on your gonna go flying throw somebody window.

prelude91 · 08-11-2009, 12:44 PM

Not on the level of SF (or Pitt), but DC has some pretty steep hills (esp near the Potomoc)...