Monongahela Incline at Upper Station — Local services in Pittsburgh

These historic inclines are beautiful at night and after visiting this area many many times, I finally got visit the Monongahela Incline recently and it was fun. It’s very touristy, but also very historic and kept up quite nicely. The staff that works there is friendly too.

The way it works – If you’re at the bottom and want to go up, there wasn’t anyone down there, so you use the machine to buy a ticket. It’s cheap, only $2.75/pp. When the car comes down and doors open, hop on – There are different rows and each row is at a different level of the stairs in the lobby area. Once at the top, you scan the paper ticket you just got printed from the machine down below. The paper tickets are NFC type, so you swipe them on a sensor. When you get back, you scan again and go through to ride back down.

There’s no AC, so when it’s hot out, it’ll be hot in these cars too. Regardless, it’s fun and nostalgic – Definitely...

FYI: Now you can get a $2,5 ticket valid for three hours and use it for both inclines. Payment can be done by cash or by card. No pets allowed. If you want to have a better view take a seat in a lower raw of a cabin. The raw in the middle is the worst. The Monongahila Incline is a little bit less popular than Duquesne (maybe because they don’t have a big parking lot) so that’s why the lines are shorter there. In my opinion, the views from overlook next to Monongahela incline are little bit more scenic than those...

We found some of the information online to be out of date. The cost to ride the incline round trip was $7 and it was easy using our credit card. The attendant informed us that our tickets were also good for a ride on the Duquesne incline.

Our accommodations were near the incline and we walked to the upper station, however, there is parking just up the street on Shiloh St.

There isn't much to do at the lower station so be prepared for a roundtrip ride.

Visit the inclines for a unique view...