--- title: "Lorain – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Lorain, United States: Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. Nearby: Lorain County Community College, Lorain West Breakwater Light, St.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lorain" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lorain.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Lorain%2C_Ohio_Skyline.jpg" --- City in Ohio, United States # Lorain Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. ![Lorain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Lorain%2C_Ohio_Skyline.jpg) Lorain · Wikimedia Commons The place Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located in Northeast Ohio on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Black River, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Cleveland. With a population of 65,211 at the 2020 census, Lorain is the ninth-most populous city in Ohio, the most populous in Lorain County and the third-most populous in Greater Cleveland. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorain%2C_Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Lorain 7 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. 1. Lorain County Community College Lorain County Community College is a public community college in Elyria, Ohio, United States, with learning centers in Wellington, North Ridgeville, and Lorain. In addition to associate degrees and certificates, students can earn bachelor's and master's degrees on campus through the college's partnerships with universities. 8.6 km · public community college in Elyria, Ohio, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorain_County_Community_College) 2. Lorain West Breakwater Light The Lorain West Breakwater Light, also called the Lorain Harbor Light, is a lighthouse in Lorain, Ohio, United States. The light was built in 1917 on Lake Erie by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. 4.6 km · lighthouse in Ohio, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorain_West_Breakwater_Light) 3. St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery Saint Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery located in Sheffield, Ohio. It is under the omophorion of Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America of the Serbian Orthodox Church. 5.7 km · Serbian Orthodox monastery in Sheffield, Ohio · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mark_Serbian_Orthodox_Monastery) 4. Midway Mall Midway Mall is a 940,174 sq ft square foot regional shopping mall in Elyria, Ohio, United States. Lorain County's only enclosed regional mall, it is located on Ohio State Route 57 near Interstate 80 and Interstate 90. 6.8 km · shopping mall in Elyria, Ohio · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Mall) 5. Ohio Business College Ohio Business College is a private for-profit junior college with multiple locations in Ohio. It is owned by Tri-State Educational Systems, Inc. 8.1 km · Private junior college in Ohio, US · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Business_College) 6. Amherst Town Hall Amherst Town Hall is a historic building in Amherst, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1975. 6.7 km · town hall in Amherst, Ohio · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Town_Hall) 7. Sprenger Stadium ForeFront Field is a baseball stadium in Avon, Ohio, United States. It is the home of the Lake Erie Crushers, a National Association of Professional Baseball team that began play in 2009. 9.6 km · baseball park in Northeast Ohio; home of the Lake Erie Crushers · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ForeFront_Field) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Lorain **Airports:** Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 27 km · Windsor (YQG), 113 km · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW), 131 km\ - Detroit → Lorain 121 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · $18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/detroit-to-lorain) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Detroit&to=Lorain) - Columbus → Lorain 180 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/columbus-to-lorain) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Columbus&to=Lorain) - Pittsburgh → Lorain 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/pittsburgh-to-lorain) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Pittsburgh&to=Lorain) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lorain) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Lorain 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 Lorain. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in including stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville. From [Wikivoyage: Elyria (Ohio)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Elyria_(Ohio%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 761 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,126 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,599 km 4. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 2,693 km 5. [Flores](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/flores) GT 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 2,823 km If you know how people move in Lorain – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clorain&title=Lorain&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Florain), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Lorain Lorain is 40 km from [Cleveland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cleveland), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Amherst](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/amherst) city in Ohio, United States 6.5 km - [Whiskyville](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whiskyville) Realynn Birky ; Whiskeyville, OH is the town mayor as of March 2021 8.9 km [The place page for Lorain](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lorain) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lorain, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt