Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S.
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, located along the southern shore of Lake Erie. It is across the lake from the Canadian province of Ontario, and is approximately 60 miles west of the Ohio–Pennsylvania state line. Cleveland is the most populous city on Lake Erie, the 2nd-most populous city in Ohio, and the 53rd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 372,624 at the 2020 census. It also serves as the county seat of Cuyahoga County. The Greater Cleveland metropolitan area, with an estimated 2.17 million residents, is the 34th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S.
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Worth seeing in and around Cleveland
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other personnel who have influenced its development.
1 km · music museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 02Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle, the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art and houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 61,000 works of art from around the world.
7 km · art museum in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 03Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was federated in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 by the Presbyterian Church, and the Case Institute of Technology, founded in 1880.
7.2 km · private university in Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 04Key Tower
Key Tower is a 57 story skyscraper on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by architect César Pelli and completed in 1991, the 947-foot building is the tallest in the state of Ohio, the 42nd-tallest in the United States, and the 165th-tallest in the world.
200 m · skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 05Progressive Field
Progressive Field is a baseball stadium in the downtown area of Cleveland, Ohio. It is the ballpark of the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball and, together with Rocket Arena, is part of the Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex.
900 m · baseball park in Cleveland · Wikipedia - 06Terminal Tower
Terminal Tower is a 52-story, 708 ft, landmark skyscraper located on Public Square in the downtown core of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Built during the skyscraper boom of the 1920s and 1930s, it was the second-tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1927.
100 m · landmark skyscraper in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 07Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923.
1.7 km · public research university in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 08Diocese of Cleveland
The Diocese of Cleveland is a diocese of the Catholic Church in northeastern Ohio in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
2.8 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 09James A. Garfield Memorial
The James A. Garfield Memorial is the final resting place of assassinated President James A. Garfield, located in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The memorial, which began construction in October 1885 and was dedicated on May 30, 1890, exhibits a combination of Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque Revival architectural styles.
8.7 km · building · Wikipedia - 10200 Public Square
200 Public Square is a skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio. The building, located on Public Square in Downtown Cleveland, reaches 45 stories and 658 feet with 1.2 million square feet of office space.
300 m · Third tallest building in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Most attractions in Cleveland are Downtown. These include the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, all in and around the University Circle neighborhood. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum, Great Lakes Science Center, and the Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum, are all on the lakefront.
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Things to do
Enjoy a game with the world's best sports fans. Cleveland is home to the second longest span of sold out baseball games (5 consecutive seasons in the late 1990s), the largest American League baseball attendance (72,086 on 8/9/1981) and the birthplace of Monday Night Football (9/21/1970).
- 01Goodtime III
See Cleveland by water via Lake Erie and/or the Cuyahoga River.
- 02Lady Caroline
Lakefront and river dining cruises departing from the west bank of the Flats.
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Where to eat
Cleveland is host to a wide variety of restaurants and is culinarily much more diverse than an outsider might suspect in the Midwest drawing on large enclaves of ethnic neighborhoods and immigration (Ohio City, Slavic Village, Parma, Hough, Little Italy, Chinatown and others).
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Getting to Cleveland
- Airports
- Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 16 km · Windsor (YQG), 135 km · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW), 159 km
- Stations
- Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, 2.2 km · Cleveland Lakefront station, 700 m
- Detroit → Cleveland145 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · $22–30
- Pittsburgh → Cleveland185 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · $17–24
- Columbus → Cleveland203 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · $18–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cleveland
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cleveland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.
- Go nextLocated west of Cleveland, a group of picturesque and festive islands in Lake Erie are accessible via ferry.
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Next door to Cleveland
- Greater Clevelandmetropolitan area of Cleveland, Ohio, United States700 m
- The Flatshistoric district in Cleveland, Ohio800 m