Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Eleven miles southwest of downtown,
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
(CLE;
www.clevelandairport.com
;
5300 Riverside Dr)
is linked by the Red Line train ($2.25). A cab
to downtown costs about $30.
From downtown,
Greyhound
( 216-781-0520; 1465 Chester Ave)
offers frequent depar-
tures to Chicago (7½ hours) and New York City (13 hours).
Megabus
(
www.megabus.com/us
)
also goes to Chicago, often for lower fares; check the website for
the departure point.
Amtrak
( 216-696-5115; 200 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway)
runs once daily to Chicago
(seven hours) and New York City (13 hours).
train that goes to both the airport and Ohio City. It also runs the HealthLine bus that mo-
tors along Euclid Ave from downtown to University Circle's museums. Day passes are
$5.
For cab service, try phoning
Americab
(
216-429-1111)
.
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Around Cleveland
Sixty miles south of Cleveland,
Canton
is the birthplace of the NFL and home to the
Pro
Football Hall of Fame
( 330-456-8207;
www.profootballhof.com
;
2121 George Halas Dr;
adult/child $22/16; 9am-8pm, to 5pm Sep-May)
. The shrine for the gridiron-obsessed
sports sweet new interactive exhibits since the museum's expansion. Look for the
football-shaped tower off I-77.
West of Cleveland, attractive
Oberlin
is an old-fashioned college town, with note-
worthy architecture by Cass Gilbert, Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert Venturi. Further
west, just south of I-90, the tiny town of
Milan
is the birthplace of Thomas Edison. His
home has been restored to its 1847 likeness and is now a small
museum
(
419-499-2135;
www.tomedison.org
; 9 Edison Dr; adult/child $7/4; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat, from 1pm
Sun, reduced hours winter, closed Jan)
outlining his inventions, including the light bulb and
phonograph.
Still further west, on US 20 and surrounded by farmland, is
Clyde
, which bills itself as
the USA's most famous small town. It got that way when native son Sherwood Anderson
published
Winesburg, Ohio
in 1919. It didn't take long for the unimpressed residents to
figure out where the fictitious town really was. Stop at the
Clyde Museum
(
419-547-7946;
www.clydeheritageleague.org
;
124 W Buckeye St;
1-4pm Thu Apr-Sep & by ap-
