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![Lorain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Lorain%2C_Ohio_Skyline.jpg)

# Lorain

Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.

[Plan a trip to Lorain](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lorain) [From Detroit](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Detroit&to=Lorain)

## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Lorain, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Lorain](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lorain)

What Lorain has

- Y Scheduled flights Cleveland (CLE), 27 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

41.440°, -82.169°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Lorain the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorain%2C_Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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