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The only qualifications are that its a paved road and its actually in use. This street qualifies. I've seen a few steeper listed, such as one in wales, new zealand, and hawaii, so continuous US gives it some sort of record.

37% grade over 6.4meters(21ft), we're talking about Canton Avenue in Pittsburgh, PA.

Pittsburgh is a city of hills, possibly the hilliest in America. If you enter the city via the Fort Pitt Tunnel, you cannot see the city until you enter the tunnel and then its like a couple football fields away when you exit.

Anyways, I've been here before, but I never drove up it before until today. Things to note: many of the streets in this area to the south of Pittsburgh are like this. steep, often two way with parked cars but only room for one to go through at a time, and even at the top of this hill, a set of one of the 700+ city steps. the kinda shit your great grandad walked dahn ah get to the mill to get to his j (long o) b.

anyhow, I hyped that up a lot. Here is a video I made. might not seem so impressive on video, but in real life it did. When I went to San Fransisco a while back I was amazed. They had super steep inclines on their roads, but they were maintained, and a perfectly level incline. They aren't as steep as this but they were pleasant to drive on because of how nice they were(the ones those pictures are always taken on of the trolleys).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aERc6XMhukg