Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Cleveland to Toledo.
This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 80 west from Cleveland to Toledo, Ohio. It offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and especially stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.

You might see signs that refer to the Firelands. It's a puzzling term suggesting that this region was once engulfed in flames. But, no. The Firelands were so named because much of this land west of Cleveland was originally given to Connecticut residents whose homes and farms had been torched by the British during the Revolutionary War. The fire was in Connecticut but the lands were in Ohio.

After entering the Ohio Turnpike, you'll see signs for the city of Sandusky. Sandusky was once poised to become the largest city in Ohio. The first man-made canal in Ohio was projected to open into Lake Erie at Sandusky, connecting Columbus and Cincinnati. But then a survey determined that there wasn't enough natural water in north central Ohio to feed a canal so Cleveland became the canal's port city instead.

You'll also see signs for Cedar Point, a vibrant survivor of an era when most communities had amusement parks with rides and games and a beach to entertain the populace. Cedar Point had its beginnings in 1870 but instead of closing in the mid-1900s, when most American amusement parks were either going or gone, Cedar Point reinvented itself. Today it claims more roller coasters than any other establishment in the nation, including several named as favorites among roller coaster aficionados.

When you pass Toledo, you'll see signs for the Toledo Mud Hens, one of baseball's classic minor league franchises. You might wonder: what's a mud hen? Well tell you what it is and why a baseball team got named for this bird.

This tour covers ... Starting in Cleveland, Exit 135 Vermilion, Exit 110 Sandusky/Bellevue

• Price: $ 9.00
• Duration: 1 hour
• Publisher: Museum of the Open Road
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• Voice(s): Bruce T. Marshall
• Subject Type: Driving tour
• Language: English
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