Baldwin Street

The Baldwin Street is the steepest street in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. It is located in North East Valley, 3.5 kilometers north of Dunedin, New Zealand. The maximum slope of the nearly 350 -meter-long street is 1:2,86 ( 19.3 ° or about 35%). Over the decades, the road has become a well known landmark of the city. In the steepest streets in the world rating Filbert Street and 22nd Street follow in San Francisco, both of which have a slope of 31.5 % ( 17.5 °). The situation at the originally similar steep Lombard Street, which is also located in San Francisco, was defused by serpentine. Other towns in the U.S. and other parts of the world for themselves claim to have even steeper roads.

Competitions and record attempts

• Every year in September there is a race over 750 meters in length, the " Baldwin Street Gutbuster " where this road is going up again, and then again to run down. The record time of 1:56 minutes was erected in 1994.
• Since 2002 there has been a charity event on the type of duck race in the 30,000 round, acquired from local sponsors Jaffa (chocolate balls with orange flavor) roll down the mountain. The sponsors of the winners will receive prizes balls.
• On 14 January 2000, the Bayer Thomas Hugenschmidt managed with his bike on this road a new speed record of 117.3 km / h
• Died in 2001, a 19 - year-old student in an attempt to shut down the street in a busy with two people dustbin. The dustbin collided with a parked trailer, the student immediately suffered fatal injuries.