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Cleveland
City in Ohio, United States

Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Cleveland

  1. 01
    Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

    The RTA Red Line Rapid Transit provides frequent and fast rail service from the airport to downtown.

  2. 02
    Burke Lakefront Airport

    A small airport downtown right on the shore of Lake Erie that handles private jet, business, and general aviation traffic.

  3. 03
    Akron-Canton Airport

    50 mi (80 km) south of Cleveland in Akron.

  4. 04
    Cuyahoga County Airport
See

Worth seeing

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.

Do

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).

  1. 01
    Goodtime III

    See Cleveland by water via Lake Erie and/or the Cuyahoga River.

  2. 02
    Lady Caroline

    Lakefront and river dining cruises departing from the west bank of the Flats.

Eat

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).

How locals move

Getting around Cleveland the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Cleveland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Joseph Keppler (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons.