Close to the border with Missouri in the southeast of Kansas, Pittsburg is a city that grew up around a coal mining camp in the 1870s. The terrain all around Pittsburg testifies to decades of strip mining, which left behind indentations that have since become narrow lakes framed by wooded ridges. Make time for downtown …
Downtown Pittsburgh, the city’s financial and business core, is three-quarters of a square mile stacked to overflowing with impressive skyscrapers. At first glance, Downtown appears to be an ultra modern metropolis, but Pittsburgh was founded in the mid-18th century, and still retains many of its original historic features. The district is bounded by two rivers, …
Pittsburgh has a reputation as a hard-working, blue-collar town, and though those labels still apply, it’s also experienced renaissances recently in the areas of food, beer, wine, and the arts. Of course, there are few cities as fanatical about their football teams as Pittsburgh is about its Steelers, but there are plenty of cultural, historic …
Pittsburgh is an exciting and versatile city in Pennsylvania. There is a lot to explore in this city, in fact, Harper’s Bazaar named Pittsburgh on of the ‘best places to travel in 2017’ and they’re keeping up their fantastic track record. The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens are surely the highlight of any visit to …
The so-called City of Bridges might only be home to 300,000 folks, but boy does it pack a punch. Famed for its steel industries, largely long since died with the rest of the embers of the Midwest’s industrial boom, the metro area here is a place of red-brick facades, countless depots and arched bridges, utilitarianism …