Ever wonder what your favorite house on the block looks like inside? Or do you catch yourself peeking through the fence to spot gorgeous flowers in your neighbor’s yard?
Now’s your time to be nebby! Explore Pittsburgh homes, gardens, and more on walking tours this summer.
South Side Home & Garden Tour
🗓️ June 14
💰 $37
This 32nd annual neighborhood tour will take you inside uniquely restored homes, repurposed lofts, and green spaces — each with a distinct style. Get to know the stories of each dwelling through personal art collections, family heirlooms, and memorabilia.
Garden Dreams Farm Walk
🗓️ June 16
💰 Free
Step inside the botanical oasis at Grow Pittsburgh’s Garden Dreams Urban Farm & Nursery in Wilkinsburg. The certified organic farm and greenhouse provides plants to urban farmers, schools, community gardeners, and home growers throughout the community. After the tour, stick around for a barbecue and social hour.
Allegheny Cemetery Tour
🗓️ June 27
💰 $25
Want a tour with a performance? Get inspired by historical Pittsburgh legends on a walk through Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville. Prime Stage Theatre actors will resurrect the stories of locals buried in one of Pittsburgh’s largest and oldest burial grounds.
Swissvale Edible Garden Tour
🗓️ July 11
💰 Free
See how residents grow vegetables, fruit trees, and pollinator-friendly flowers throughout private gardens all over the Swissvale neighborhood. Then join the community for a picnic and party afterwards with food, entertainment, and activities for all ages.
Shaler’s Great Garden Tour
🗓️ July 12
💰 $20-$25
Take in the sweet smells and sights of the gardens throughout this North Hills suburb. Previous stops on Shaler’s Great Garden Tour featured prairie gardens with native perennials, peaceful ponds, water features, and stone landscaping.
Rivers of Steel: Carrie Blast Furnaces
🗓️ Multiple dates, ongoing
💰 $17-$26
Want to know what Pittsburgh looked like during its steel industry days? Get a glimpse of our region’s industrial past on a tour of Carrie Blast Furnaces — stretching between Rankin and Swissvale and towering 92 feet above the Monongahela River. The furnaces, built in 1884, are a remnant of the U.S. Steel Homestead Steel Works and a rare example of both 20th century steel dominance and pre-World War II iron-making technology.
Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden Audio Tour
🗓️ Anytime
💰 Free
Visitors to this magnificent 629-acre park — originally a county estate for an equestrian family — can take a free, self-guided audio tour of the Carol R. Brown Sculpture Garden. Learn about Pittsburgh’s industrial past while touring 14 large displays. Bring your headphones, and find a QR code at each stop!
Showcase Manchester
🗓️ Date coming soon
💰 TBD
Mosey through brick-lined streets, turn-of-the-century Victorian homes, and dreamy gardens on this annual tour on the North Side. You’ll be stunned by the intricate woodwork, stained-glass windows, tall ceilings, and manicured gardens in Pittsburgh’s largest historic district.
Observatory Hill House Tour
🗓️ August 1
💰 $33
Visit Observatory Hill’s most striking and storied buildings — from the homes on Judges Row to the iconic Allegheny Observatory. Last year’s tour started at Riverview Park, and featured craft beer samples from local breweries at stops throughout the tour.
Mexican War Streets House & Garden Tour
🗓️ September 20
💰 $35
Open doors to beautifully restored rowhouses on this 54th annual home and garden tour on the North Side. Attendees will be awed by stonework hearths, gorgeous wood floors, charming courtyards, and verdant community gardens.
