Fort Pitt Tunnel: A piece of Pittsburgh history

Travelers familiar with Pittsburgh know that any time you visit you are almost certainly going to travel through one of the three main tunnels surrounding the city. The Fort Pitt Tunnel, a resource that is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, was recently renovated, which impacted this historic resource. As part of the mitigation for this effect, the three-county PennDOT region worked closely with the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission and other local groups in Pittsburgh to create a video to capture not only a brief history of the tunnel but to capture the iconic view of traveling through the tunnel and into the City of Pittsburgh.

[@VladaDudak]

I'm in Pittsburgh right now and I can tell you when I was there for the first time and went thru the tunnel at night it has really wow effect. Very nice and kind of dramatic entrance to the city.

[@novaman7100]

For the best view of Pittsburgh grab a seat on the upper level behind home plate at PNC Park. Best in baseball.

[@marymckinney2864]

I loved visiting my grandparents every summer. We drove with 6 kids in the car from Oklahoma,and my dad woke us up before the tunnel. Such great memories

[@wolventhrone1631]

Every time the host says 'downtown' he overemphasizes the 'o' sounds like he's trying not to instinctively say daaahntaaahn

[@MontgomeryMall]

That entrance into the city of Pittsburgh coming out of the Fort Pitt Tunnel is undoubtedly the greatest first view of a city in America

[@clarkewi]

The last time I was in Pittsburgh was as a 7-year-old boy in 1958. While that bridge was being built. Our DC 7 prop plane stopped on the way to California where I grew up and lived in until 2005. Now I'm 69 and live in New Zealand. I'd really like to go back and visit Pittsburgh. A gorgeous city.

[@Andrew-zq3ip]

I'm a Pittsburgh uber Eats driver and I love every square mile of this city. Murray Forbes and shady are my favorite streets. I love downtown. I love the bridges. I work from mckeesport to fox chapel. I consider myself lucky to have a solid mental map of the tangled knots of streets that make up this place. Every drive is an adventure.

[@keiththomas3141]

I remember when there was no Fort Pitt tunnel. I also remember when they first opened it. It was amazing.

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

I don’t know anything about this Bridge, Tunnel nor Pittsburgh.

[@cathie9614]

I'm stuck on, it only taking 120 people building that tunnel. Unbelievable

[@protorhinocerator142]

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area and have family there. I visit most every year, usually coming through the FPT.

[@evanm225]

Took my first road trip to Pittsburgh from Morgantown WV, and I gotta say as a civil Engineering major, it took everything thing i had to not gawp in amazement at what the end of the tunnel had in store. But I had to make those merges so I couldn’t stare too long.

[@walterstout7014]

My family lived in suburban Pittsburgh for 21 years. I always remembered the thrill of driving through the Fort Pitt Tunnel after a long family trip....it was so good to be "home!"

[@TylerMWeather9102]

Really makes me proud to be from Pittsburgh!

[@thackythac]

Its like you have entered another world coming out of the tunnel and seeing Pittsburgh. Just amazing =)

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

I was a on-call hospice nurse and covered many counties in and around Pittsburgh. If there was a bridge, I crossed it. If there was a tunnel, I went through it. But coming out of the Fort Pitt Bridge inbound

[@johnbroadway4196]

I remember A Pittsburgh of the 60's into the late 80's. Where there was never A dark night. To that glowing humming sounds that gave America it's strength.

[@edhartman5466]

I always delight traveling through both the Squirrel Hill Tunnels and the Fort Pitt Tunnels as my dad was part of the (many) tile setters who set by hand all those wall and then ceiling tiles.

[@dmapittsburgh]

Born and raised in Pittsburgh (West Mifflin) and living in Houston since 1974. Every time I come home to visit, I never get tired of exiting the tunnel and seeing that view. It's awesome!

[@cathie9614]

When I go away for any length of time and come home through the tunnel, I get this great sense of calmness that " I'm Home" feeling. My body relaxes from all the stress of traveling and It's a great feeling coming thru the the Fort Pitt Tunnel.