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8 Great Road Trips to Take in Ohio
Most Ohio trips start on the interstate, but the true scenic routes start right as you leave it. Routes like US-6 along Lake Erie, OH-374 in Hocking Hills, and the Ohio River Scenic Byway along US-52 show just how different the state feels once the road begins to follow the terrain. From flat shoreline to wooded valleys, passing marinas, beaches, and dozens of unique small-town main streets, there is not a single road trip in Ohio that goes unnoticed. Whether searching for a short trip to one of the nation’s best amusement parks, driving by to see one of the nation’s national parks, or simply going to find all the beauty Ohio has to offer, these are eight great road trips across Ohio that locals absolutely love.
The Causeway
Starting from downtown Cleveland and heading toward Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, you can find one of the most scenic road trips in all of Ohio. Skip the highway and leave Cleveland heading west on Detroit Avenue to Lake Avenue, staying as close to Lake Erie as the shoreline allows. As it feeds into US-6, the road follows Lake Erie all the way from downtown Cleveland to Sandusky.
Lake Road threads through dozens of lakefront communities, like Rocky River, Bay Village, Avon Lake, and more, even driving right through the small downtowns of Vermilion, Lorain, and Huron. Once you pass Huron, the drive begins to feel less suburban and more open, showing off the beautiful marinas and small beaches as they replace the dense neighborhoods. You’re never far from the water as the road keeps a steady, ground-level perspective almost the whole way through.
As you approach Sandusky, US-6 feeds you directly to Cedar Point Road. From there, the final and most stunning part of the drive begins: the Cedar Point Causeway. Featuring Sandusky Bay on one side and Lake Erie on the other, there truly is no angle that isn’t beautiful. Timeless lakefront homes line Cedar Point Road, with some dating back to the early 1960s. The Causeway is used as a back entrance, often used by locals, and is unlike most theme park entrances, creating an unforgettable drive into one of the nation’s best theme parks.
Put-in-Bay
Hop aboard the Miller Ferry in Ohio from the Miller Boat Line Catawba Dock, which takes you right to the tip of Port Clinton, Ohio. Here you will catch a scenic ferry ride to the small island town of Put-in-Bay, also known as South Bass Island.
Touring the entire 3.7-mile-long, 1.5-mile-wide island creates an incredible mini road trip all its own. Head out from where the Miller Ferry drops you off on Langram Road and go northeast toward Bayview Avenue. The road hugs the shoreline, where you are surrounded by views of Lake Erie from every angle. You’ll pass Perry’s Victory & International Peace Memorial, which rises over 350 feet above the ground and offers stunning views from up top.
Bayview Avenue eventually bends into Columbus Avenue, where the road begins to narrow and feel more remote before ending at a lakeside turnaround where you’ll find open views across the water and mainland. Head back into town onto Delaware Street, passing DeRivera Park and the local restaurants before meeting Catawba Avenue, running right into The Boardwalk restaurant overlooking the Put-in-Bay Marina. Put-in-Bay Island is small, but from one end to the other, it makes for an incredible mini road trip around one of Lake Erie’s most beautiful islands as it showcases the elegant homes, breathtaking waterfront views, and one of Lake Erie’s most exciting islands.
Hocking Hills Scenic Byway
The Hocking Hills Scenic Byway is considered one of the most scenic road trips in all of Ohio. The 26.4-mile trip begins right as you turn off US Route 33 onto State Route 374 in Rockbridge, Ohio. This route passes through the scenic Hocking Hills and the Hocking State Forest and is nationally recognized as a National Scenic Byway.
Following south down State Route 374, you will pass some of Ohio’s most incredible natural landmarks. Worth stopping is Old Man’s Cave, a hiking area featuring trails, picnic tables, and a visitor center, while other short side roads branch off toward Cedar Falls and Ash Cave. Continuing south, the road becomes quieter with large trees towering overhead that block out the sky in sections. It feels far removed from typical Ohio farmland and in some spots feels like a drive through the Appalachian foothills.
Ohio River Scenic Byway
The Ohio River Scenic Byway is a 943-mile national scenic route traversing Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois along the Ohio River, featuring historic towns and incredible river views. The Ohio portion spans 452 miles across 14 counties, running from East Liverpool to the Indiana border.
Leaving Cincinnati and heading east, pick up US-52 East where the road immediately begins following the Ohio River. The nearby suburbs quickly fade as the highway bends with the shoreline, with the hills of Kentucky rising just across the water. You pass through classic river towns like New Richmond, Ripley, and Portsmouth, where small downtowns and marinas sit only a few feet from the road. As one of the longest continuous waterfront drives in Ohio, the water stays beside you for hours as it follows the state’s entire southern border. That’s until just before reaching the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania in East Liverpool.
Cuyahoga Valley Drive
Cuyahoga Valley Drive often refers to the scenic route along Riverview Road. This route is about 20 miles long and runs right through the heart of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, between Cleveland and Akron.
As you enter Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Brecksville, take Riverview Road south, where almost immediately the road drops into a narrow valley, running alongside the Cuyahoga River and the historic Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. This route is perfect for a summer scenic drive or an incredible place to see Ohio’s fall foliage, with its curvy roads and tall trees. Passing Boston Mills Ski Resort before reaching the village of Peninsula, the mix of a railroad, canal, river, and roadway all sharing the same corridor creates a surprisingly remote road trip that locals absolutely love.
Amish Country Backroads Loop
The Amish Country Byway in Holmes County offers a 190-mile scenic route through the heart of one of the largest Amish settlements in the United States. This backroads loop is ideal for a 2-3-day road trip, with plenty of stops along the way, from cheese shops and furniture stores to sightings of horse-drawn buggies.
Entering the byway, which follows paths similar to the earliest Amish settlers in 1808, the route consists of multiple state and federal highways throughout Holmes County and west on State Route 62 through Knox County to Utica, Ohio. Along SR-62, you will find Amish-owned farms with roadside stands, bakeries, antique stores, and cheese factories. The road rolls constantly over long hills, opening expansive views of barns, silos, and patchwork farmland in almost every direction. Unlike Ohio’s coastal or forest drives, this road trip showcases the state’s countryside scenery.
Headlands Beach State Park
Heading northeast from downtown Cleveland toward Headlands Beach State Park showcases a unique side of the eastern Cleveland suburbs. The trip begins with city views and industrial streets but quickly transitions into incredible lakeside scenery in just about 40 minutes.
Leaving downtown Cleveland, merge onto SR-2 East toward Euclid and Erie, Pennsylvania. Continue past suburbs like Euclid and Willoughby before exiting at SR-44 North toward Grand River. From here, the drive becomes quieter as the road widens and trees and wildlife appear. Continuing north toward Lake Erie brings you straight to the entrance of Headlands Beach State Park.
Tall trees line the road as sand and shoreline begin to appear. With beaches and the Fairport Harbor Lighthouse nearby, walking trails through the scenery create a relaxing ending to a road trip from the city into Ohio’s natural lakeshore.
Lake Erie Coastal Loop
For a longer northern Ohio road trip, follow the Lake Erie shoreline nearly the entire way from Cleveland to Toledo using US-6 and local lakefront roads. A similar drive heading towards Cedar Point from Cleveland, this route picks up Lake Road, US-6 west, and stays right on the Lake Erie shoreline.
Continuing west, the route passes through Huron and into Sandusky as you hop on State Route 2 just before crossing over the Thomas A. Edison Memorial Bridge connecting the towns of Bay View and Port Clinton right over the Sandusky Bay. As you approach Toledo, the drive offers endless sights of wildlife areas. Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area are popular birdwatching destinations in the Midwest and are just off SR-2.
This full coastal drive takes most of the day but provides one of the most complete experiences of Lake Erie, combining beaches, harbors, wildlife refuges, and historic lake towns all in a single trip from Cleveland to Toledo.
Ohioans Most Favorite Roadtrips
From northern Ohio, riding along the shores of Lake Erie or venturing down south to the Ohio River, Ohio offers an abundance of coastal road trips. While the Hocking Hills Scenic Byway and Cuyahoga Valley Drive offer an incredibly different road-trip experience, with curving roads and wooded valleys, and dozens of stops to check out nearby waterfalls and caves. Whether searching for a long drive along the river or lake, or a small road trip around Put-in-Bay Island, there’s a road trip in Ohio that’s sure to amaze.
By Anash.org reporter
Rabbi Yehuda Leib (Leibel) Alevsky, longtime shliach to Cleveland, Ohio, who directed the local Chabad institutions for decades, passed away on Monday, 3 Iyar.
He was 86 years old.
Born on 1 Sivan 5699 in Chernigov, Ukraine, to Reb Chaim Boruch and Mrs. Sima Chaya Alevsky, his father was drafted into the Russian army to fight the Nazis when he was two years old, never to return. He was raised by his mother and his maternal grandfather, Reb Gavriel Kagan, a tomim from Lubavitch.
After the war, the family joined the mass escape from Russia under false Polish passports. After time in a displaced persons camp in Germany and then in France, the Frierdiker Rebbe directed his family to move to Eretz Yisrael. He enrolled in Tomchei Tmimim in Lod, where he studied in the zal under the mashpia, Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman.
In 5718, after receiving the Rebbe’s permission to travel to New York, he arrived on his nineteenth birthday, Rosh Chodesh Sivan, and enrolled in Tomchei Tmimim at 770. He quickly distinguished himself and was among the first bochurim chosen for the Shivas Knei Hamenorah (“Kanim”) – a group of fourteen select students, seven in Chassidus and seven in nigleh, designated to deliver shiurim and pilpulim before the entire yeshiva.
Beginning in 5722 and until her passing in 5725, he merited to serve Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbe’s mother, assisting her in numerous ways and spending many hours in her presence.
That same year, he became the first official employee of Tzach, the Lubavitch Youth Organization, under Rabbi Dovid Raskin. He ran the organization for a decade, taking responsibility for hakhalas kehillos, tahalucha, Shabbosim in outlying communities, shiurim, and the printing of the first four volumes of Likkutei Sichos. He also spearheaded the global Keren Hashishim campaign in honor of the Rebbe’s 60th birthday.
During those same years, he developed a close working relationship with Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Eizik Chodakov, the Rebbe’s secretary and chief of staff, whose yahrzeit also falls on 3 Iyar. In an interview with Anash.org, Rabbi Alevsky recalled how Rabbi Chodakov would summon him late at night during yechidus evenings and offer suggestions for Tzach’s activities. He initially did not always act on them – until he once found that the Rebbe himself referenced those same suggestions during a yechidus, making clear to him their true source.
As the neighborhood of Crown Heights began to change, he also acted as a liaison for Tzach to city officials, securing grants and property to stabilize the community.
He merited rare closeness with the Rebbe, and on several occasions, he was called upon to drive the Rebbe to the Ohel. Recognizing the need for the Rebbe to have communication from the Ohel to 770, he arranged for a car phone to be installed in the Rebbe’s vehicle—a luxury that cost $900 at the time—which the Rebbe utilized to send out hora’os. He also arranged for the permanent “No Parking” zone in front of 770 so the Rebbe’s car would always have clear access.
He married his wife, Devorah, daughter of Rabbi Shlomo Schneur Zalman Kazen, one of the Rebbe’s pioneering shluchim, in Cleveland on Chai Elul 5722. At the yechidus before the wedding, the Rebbe told the young couple: “Az ir vet machen lichtig arum eich, vet der Aibershter machen lichtig bai eich” – when you spread light around you, the Aibershter will illuminate your own space as well.
At the same time of their Chasuna, the Rebbe held a surprise farbrengen in 770, announcing the upcoming “Shnas Hakan” (150 years since the Alter Rebbe’s passing). The Rebbe had Rabbi Hodakov phone the wedding hall so the Chosson could repeat the Rebbe’s words to the assembled guests.
In 5727 (1967), during a yechidus for his 28th birthday, he asked the Rebbe if his mother and sister should leave Eretz Yisroel due to the looming threat of the Six-Day War. The Rebbe responded prophetically that there was no need to worry, as the war would be over in ten days.
In 5732 (1972), he began his shlichus in Cleveland, joining his father-in-law in expanding Chabad activities in the city.
Over the following decades, he led the community and oversaw immense growth. He built a replica of 770 in Cleveland to serve as the headquarters for the Chabad activities there.
He organized groups of mekuravim who would travel together by bus to receive the Rebbe’s brochos by Sunday dollars.
During the events of Shemini Atzeres 5738 (1977), Rabbi Alevsky was instrumental in the efforts for the Rebbe’s health, helping to urgently bring a doctor to 770.
When the bank threatened to foreclose on the Chabad building in 5744, he flew to the Rebbe and submitted a detailed report on the situation. The Rebbe responded, “Azkir al hatziyun,” and within days the full amount was raised in what he described as an open miracle.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Devorah Alevsky, and their children: Sarah Freedman – Bahia Blanca, Argentina; Chani Glitzenstein – Maaleh Efraim, Eretz Yisroel; Kaila Sasonkin – Akron, Ohio; Rabbi Chaim Boruch Alevsky – Cleveland, Ohio; Miriam Greenberg – Solon, Ohio; Dinie Greenberg – Shanghai, China; Estie Marozov – Pepper Pike, Ohio; Rochie Sudak – London, UK; Rivky Friedman – Brooklyn, New York; and Rabbi Mendy Alevsky – Cleveland, Ohio.
The levaya will take place today in Ohio at 4:30 p.m. at the Waxman Chabad Center, followed by kevura at Anshe Sfard Cemetery.
Boruch dayan hoemes.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Three people were seriously injured after a car crash on I-90 at Eddy Road early Sunday morning, according to Cleveland EMS.
EMS told 19 News that paramedics responded to the I-90 West and Eddy Road for a car crash.
Paramedics took a man in his 60s in serious condition to Metro Health, a man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s, both in serious condition, to University Hospital.
19 News has reached out to Cleveland Police for more details about the crash.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for more details.
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