There are 11 ways to get from Pittsburgh to Essex by bus, plane, train (Amtrak), car, or train
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Bus, fly to Bradley International Airport
best- Take the bus from Seventh Ave + Smithfield St to Pittsburgh International Airportbus
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Bradley International Airport (BDL)plane PIT - BDL
- Take the bus from Central Row South Side @ Travelers to Old Saybrook RR Stnbus
7h 47mBus
cheapest- Take the bus from Pittsburgh Greyhound to Port Authority Bus Terminalbus
- Take the bus from New York to Hartfordbus
- Take the bus from Asylum St @ Bushnell Park to Old Saybrook RR Stnbus 921
14h 19m$78–153Train (Amtrak)
- Take the train from Pittsburgh Amtrak Station to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Stationtrain Pennsylvanian
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain Northeast Regional
13h 41m$169–363Drive 467.7 mi
- Drive from Pittsburgh to Essexcar 467.7 mi
8h 49m$86–124Fly to Laguardia Airport, train
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Laguardia Airport (LGA)plane PIT - LGA
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
8h 49m$117–595Fly to John F. Kennedy International Airport, train
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)plane PIT - JFK
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
8h 43m$728–1,111Fly to Boston Logan Airport, train
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Boston Logan Airport (BOS)plane PIT - BOS
- Take the train from Boston to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
8h 16m$465–1,039Fly to Newark Liberty International Airport, train
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)plane PIT - EWR
- Take the train from Newark Liberty International Airport to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
9h 3m$547–1,059Bus, fly to Theodore Francis Green State Airport, train
- Take the bus from Seventh Ave + Smithfield St to Pittsburgh International Airportbus
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Theodore Francis Green State Airport (PVD)plane PIT - PVD
- Take the train from Providence to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
8h 32mFly to Philadelphia International Airport, train
- Fly from Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)plane PIT - PHL
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Stationtrain
- Take the train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
10h 8m$211–1,486Bus, train
- Take the bus from Pittsburgh Intermodal Station to Port Authority Bus Terminalbus
- Take the train from Grand Central Terminal to New Haventrain
- Take the train from New Haven to Old Saybrook Amtrak Stationtrain
14h 38m$97–173
Pittsburgh to Essex by train and bus (Amtrak)
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Pittsburgh to Essex is to bus which costs $75 - $160 and takes 14h 19m.
The fastest way to get from Pittsburgh to Essex is to fly and train which takes 8h 16m and costs $460 - $1,100.
No, there is no direct bus from Pittsburgh to Essex. However, there are services departing from Pittsburgh Greyhound and arriving at Essex Center @ Essex Square via New York, Asylum St @ Bushnell Park and Old Saybrook Train Station Bus Shelter. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 19m.
No, there is no direct train from Pittsburgh station to Essex station. However, there are services departing from Pittsburgh Amtrak Station and arriving at Old Saybrook Amtrak Station via Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 41m.
The distance between Pittsburgh and Essex is 494 miles. The road distance is 470.4 miles.
The best way to get from Pittsburgh to Essex without a car is to train which takes 13h 41m and costs $160 - $370.
It takes approximately 7h 47m to get from Pittsburgh to Essex, including transfers.
Pittsburgh to Essex bus services, operated by Megabus, depart from Pittsburgh Greyhound station.
Pittsburgh to Essex train services, operated by Amtrak, depart from Pittsburgh Amtrak Station.
The best way to get from Pittsburgh to Essex is to train which takes 13h 41m and costs $160 - $370. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $75 - $160 and takes 14h 19m.
What companies run services between Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Essex, CT, USA?
You can take a train from Pittsburgh Amtrak Station to Essex Center @ Essex Square via Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station, Old Saybrook Amtrak Station, and Old Saybrook Train Station Bus Shelter in around 13h 41m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Pittsburgh Greyhound to Essex Center @ Essex Square via Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, Hartford, Asylum St @ Bushnell Park, Old Saybrook RR Stn, and Old Saybrook Train Station Bus Shelter in around 14h 19m.
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–440
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Laguardia Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–550
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Laguardia Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–410
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–440
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–310
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $60–360
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–320
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Washington Dulles
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–320
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport via Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–430
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport via Reagan Washington
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–440
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–550
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–310
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–410
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $50–310
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–470
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–500
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–550
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–310
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–400
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Laguardia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 49m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–410
- Website
- southwest.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport via Baltimore
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–430
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Theodore Francis Green State Airport via Baltimore
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $55–310
- Website
- jetblue.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–310
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–400
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Laguardia Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Boston Logan Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–440
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $60–360
- Website
- flybreeze.com
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Bradley International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Pittsburgh International Airport to Theodore Francis Green State Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Pittsburgh Amtrak Station to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $130–290
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–75
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–75
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–75
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–80
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Newark Liberty International Airport to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 56m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $35–80
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Providence to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $25–55
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from 30th Street Station to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $28–60
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–75
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from New Haven to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $10–22
- Website
- Amtrak
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak Acela
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from 30th Street Station to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–600
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- $20–460
- First Class
- $130–600
- Phone
- +1 877.690.5114
- Website
- Metro North Railroad
Train from Grand Central Terminal to New Haven
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $19–29
- Website
- Metro North Railroad
- Schedules at
- Metro North Railroad Schedules
- Off-Peak
- $19–22
- Peak
- $26–29
- Website
- shorelineeast.com
Train from New Haven to Old Saybrook Amtrak Station
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–8
- Schedules at
- shorelineeast.com
- Phone
- +1 412-442-2000
- Website
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Bus from Seventh Ave + Smithfield St to Pittsburgh International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Bus from Seventh Ave + Smithfield St to Pittsburgh International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit
- Phone
- +1 860-525-9181
- Website
- CT Transit
Bus from Central Row South Side @ Travelers to Old Saybrook RR Stn
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $2–6
- Website
- CT Transit
- Book at
- CT Transit Bookings
- Two-Hour Pass
- $2
- Two-Hour Pass express
- $5–6
Bus from Asylum St @ Bushnell Park to Old Saybrook RR Stn
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $2–6
- Website
- CT Transit
- Book at
- CT Transit Bookings
- Two-Hour Pass
- $2
- Two-Hour Pass express
- $5–6
- Phone
- +1-877-462-6342
- [email protected]
- Website
- Megabus
Bus from Pittsburgh Greyhound to Port Authority Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $50–80
- Website
- Megabus
- Adult One-way
- $50–80
- Phone
- 1-800-343-9999
- Website
- Peter Pan
Bus from New York to Hartford
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $24–65
- Website
- Peter Pan
- Phone
- +1 214-849-8100
- [email protected]
- Website
- Greyhound
Bus from Pittsburgh Intermodal Station to Port Authority Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–130
- Website
- Greyhound
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More Questions & Answers
Pittsburgh to Essex bus services, operated by Megabus, arrive at Port Authority Bus Terminal station.
Pittsburgh to Essex train services, operated by Amtrak, arrive at Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station.
Yes, the driving distance between Pittsburgh to Essex is 470 miles. It takes approximately 8h 49m to drive from Pittsburgh to Essex.
There are 84+ hotels available in Essex.















