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Friday, 10 February 2012 11:10

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

A Walkabout reader and city explorer, Brent Boss discovers places in his Buick and on his bicycle.

For many roads that wind around hillsides, for switchbacks and those “that’s-a-road?” roads, the bicycle is the implausibly more practical mode, even if you have to walk it part of the way.

Most modern-day persons in cars would not make a left at an urban intersection and wonder whether the road was going to wind and wind around and around into deeper and deeper ruralness on narrower and narrower roads with a ravine just inches from your tires, but the modern-day Pittsburgher knows to wonder.
For an exploration of what I call high and they call Spring Hill, I had a company car that was narrow enough — just barely — to not slide off the loopy little roads within the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery.

Boss found it one day and challengd me to find it. But the real challenge is to find the right one, because there are a number of cemeteries way up on the tops of hills.

The view from the cemetery is a 360 wonder, with Downtown and the Strip to the south and the descending angles of hillside housing on the north, framing 279 and its teensy cars crawling along.

At one time, you couldn’t see the skyline from where the stone girl with a view is standing, but in post-industrial Pittsburgh, those views are best granted to the living.

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written by Penndark, February 19, 2012 - 08:58 PM

Easy! It is off of Overbeck Street. Thanks for the first photo - otherwise I was way off base.

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