Published by T\LT WEST
June 11, 2022
by Joshua Ware

Pig Hill is a sharp (24% grade), riverside incline on Rialto Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that connects The Strip District with the Troy Hill neighborhood. Now a two-way, paved road with adjacent pedestrian stairs, locals gave the hill its colloquial name due to its husbandry-related past. During the late 1800s, stockyards on Herr Island — located on the Allegheny River just south of the hill — used the Rialto Street incline as passage for herding pigs to slaughterhouses located uphill in Spring Garden.

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