Lonely Planet puts Pittsburgh in a top 10 list of global cities to visit in 2025

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette link: https://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2024/10/23/pittsburgh-is-a-top-ten-destination-for-2025/stories/202410240037

Lonely Planet, the travel guide publisher, has named Pittsburgh one of the top 10 destinations for 2025. The city’s authenticity and ambition for the future helped earn it a place in the publisher’s Best in Travel for 2025 list. The other destinations include Toulouse, France; Pondicherry, India; Bansko, Bulgaria; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Genoa Italy; Osaka Japan; Curitiba, Brazil; Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and Edmonton, Canada.

While it isn’t exactly a list of the world’s first-string destinations, they are places where everyday life is more accessible to the visitor, giving the traveler a sense of being part of it rather than acting strictly as an observer. ... “Pittsburgh’s most recent renaissance is a pitch-perfect dynamism marked by old favorites and new gems, often side by side,” said Nitya Chambers, executive editor of Lonely Planet in a press release.

Old staples such as Kennywood amusement park and the Duquesne Incline are listed as two of the big attractions along with Lorelei, the beer hall with communal tables in East Liberty. Other attractions include the museums, the murals, the enthusiasm for our sports teams and the abundance of green space.

Other publications that have named Pittsburgh a top travel destination this year include National Geographic, USA Today and Men’s Journal.

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For some reason they don't even mention the Steelers, Pirates or Penguins. 💛🖤💛

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1. Pittsburgh has a long history of technology, civic involvement, and prosperity

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2. The steel mills gave us a century of prosperity and soot - pollution of the worst kind

Personally I'm glad they are gone, but I didn't make a living from them anyway. When the steel mills closed - mostly in the 1970s and '80s - a lot of Pittsburghers were forced to move somewhere else. Nowadays the major employers in Pittsburgh are the tech companies, the universities, the medical centers, consulting engineers and such.

I think the Lonely Planet group chooses Pittsburgh as a travel destination because much of our architecture, bridges, tunnels, etc. have been preserved. There are lots of places to take cool photos here.

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3. I was born not far from there and moved away early. A trip to Pittsburg might be in my future...hummm

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4. Next year is a good time to come to Pittsburgh

There are all kinds of celebrations planned in Philadelphia in the following year ... 2026 will be the 250th anniversary of 1776.

I know that the history and panache is on the eastern side of our state.
We mostly get overlooked on the western side of Pennsylvania.