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Lock Street

524.9 m · net rise 69.3 m · total ascent 70.0 m · overall 13.2% · evidence quality B (good) · North Charleroi · Pennsylvania ·

Shape: sustained — 36% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 166 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the state road inventory, OpenStreetMap and the point-cloud evidence for a graded road bed, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈36%116–118 munder overhead cover terrain reads 103.0% at 103–105 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈26%116–119 munder overhead cover terrain reads 95.2% at 103–106 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈23%515–520 munder overhead cover terrain reads 84.0% at 103–108 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈22%511–521 munder overhead cover terrain reads 74.3% at 103–113 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈21.2%266–286 munder overhead cover terrain reads 51.3% at 101–121 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈20.8%264–289 munder overhead cover terrain reads 41.8% at 94–119 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈19.9%236–286 munder overhead cover terrain reads 23.7% at 69–119 m across a structure — excluded
100 m19.4%192–292 m

may continue beyond end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: paved throughout, according to each state's road inventory.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery USGS (public domain)

Lock Street LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Lock Street elevation profile
Lock Street rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationUSGS 3DEP (The National Map) — USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, PA_WesternPA_2019_D20 (collected 2020)
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:26917; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tilesx59y445
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run pa-run4-260907, calculated 2026-09-07

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:26917",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/usa/pa-west/USGS_1M_17_x59y445_PA_WesternPA_2019_D20.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-07T11:22:03+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/pennsylvania-2026-09-07-batch-band1.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "pa-run4-260907",
  "elevation_provider": "USGS 3DEP (The National Map)",
  "elevation_licence": "Public domain \u2014 USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey",
  "elevation_dataset": "USGS 3DEP 1 m DEM, PA_WesternPA_2019_D20 (collected 2020)",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "x59y445"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 EPT corridor failed: PA_WesternPA_2019_D20: HTTP Error 404: Not Found",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}