Ohio_State_Route_23_(1923–1927)

Ohio State Route 2

Ohio State Route 2

State highway in Ohio, United States

"OH 2" redirects here. The term may also refer to Ohio's 2nd congressional district.

State Route 2 (SR 2), formerly known as Inter-county Highway 2 until 1921[3] and State Highway 2 in 1922,[4] is an east–west highway crossing most of northern Ohio. Its western terminus is at the Indiana state line near Hicksville where the route becomes Indiana State Road 37 which continues to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The eastern terminus of the route is in Painesville Township in Lake County at U.S. Route 20 (US 20).

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Route description

Western terminus of SR 2
Eastern terminus of SR 2

It passes through Bryan, Wauseon (where it briefly becomes a couplet[5]), and enters greater Toledo west of its interchange with the Ohio Turnpike. It continues east from greater Toledo and soon parallels Lake Erie, becoming a freeway near Port Clinton. From Oregon to Sandusky SR 2 is part of 293 miles (472 km) of the highway designated the "Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail".[6] and on September 22, 2005, was designated a National Scenic Byway.[7] From Toledo to Sandusky the highway is also part of and designated the Lake Erie Circle Tour that is also part of the 6,500-mile (10,500 km) "Great Lakes Circle Tour".[8] It then passes Sandusky, where it meets U.S. Route 250 (US 250) and US 6, and separates from the lakeshore as a freeway, and traverses rural Erie County before entering Lorain County. Near Elyria, it joins Interstate 90 (I-90), whose route it shares to Rocky River, where it follows SR 254 along Detroit Road into Lakewood. Here it again joins US 6, as well as US 20 on Clifton Boulevard. It then becomes part of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway in Cleveland, joining I-90 again near Burke Lakefront Airport. These two highways split near Euclid, and SR 2 continues along the Lakeland Freeway to Painesville, feeding into US 20 eastbound. SR 2 serves as an access route to lakeshore attractions on Lake Erie from Toledo and Cleveland and as an alternative to the Ohio Turnpike.

The stretch of SR 2 from Toledo to Sandusky passes several attractions. The Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is just east of SR 19 in Carroll Township. It sits on 733 acres (297 ha) along with the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station.

SR 2 is the lowest numbered state route in Ohio. SR 1 was decommissioned in 1965.

Naming

The section of SR 2 that runs through Erie County is called the "Jackie Mayer Miss America Highway" and is named for Jackie Mayer, a former Miss America who was born and raised in Sandusky.[9]

The section of SR 2 that runs through Willoughby is named "Brian Montgomery Memorial Highway"[10] in honor of a Marine Lance Corporal who was killed in the Iraq War in August 2005.[11]

History

  • 1912: Intercounty Highway 2 runs from Cleveland to the Pennsylvania state line.[12]
  • 1923: Route is extended to follow current US 6 alignment from the Indiana state line to Bryan, and current SR 51 and US 20 from Toledo to the Pennsylvania state line.[13]
  • 1926–1927: Rerouted from Toledo to Cleveland along previous SR 23 alignment from Toledo to Port Clinton, previously unnumbered route from Port Clinton to 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Sandusky, and previous SR 12 from 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Sandusky to Cleveland. Cleveland-to-Pennsylvania alignment certified as US 20.[13]
  • 1931: Extended east to Willoughby along previously unnumbered route (St. Clair).
  • 1931–1932: Western terminus shortened to Bryan, Bryan to Indiana state line certified as US 6
  • 1936: Extended to Indiana state line via the former SR 108 alignment from Hicksville to Bryan, and the former SR 18 alignment from the Indiana state line to Hicksville, with which it was dually certified along this route until 1940.[13]
  • 1939: SR 18 alignment removed from SR 2 alignment west of Hicksville.[13]
  • 1939: Route extended east to Lost Nation Road in Willoughby.
  • 1941: SR 2 from West 6th to East 9th moved from Lakeside Avenue to the Lakefront Highway, later called the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway. Lakeside certified as SR 2 temporary.
  • 1962: Extended east to SR 283 in Painesville; Euclid-to-Painesville alignment upgraded to freeway.[13]
  • 1967: 9 miles (14 km) west of Sandusky to 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Sandusky upgraded to freeway, and rerouted on the bypass around Sandusky on former US 6 alignment.[13]
  • 1967: Route extended to its current eastern terminus at US 20 in Painesville Township
  • 1968: From SR 163 to 9 miles (14 km) west of Sandusky upgraded to freeway.[13]
  • 1970: From 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amherst to SR 83 (SR 76 at that time) upgraded to freeway; from 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Amherst to SR 83 dually certified with I-90.[13]
  • 1973–1975: OH 2 Alt is deleted as discontinuous sections of Route 2 are moved from US 6 to I-90.
  • 1976: From Ceylon to 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amherst upgraded to freeway.[13]
  • 1977: From SR 83 to Rocky River upgraded to freeway and dually certified with I-90.[13]
  • August 30, 1990: From Huron to Ceylon upgraded to freeway.[14]

Major intersections

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Auxiliary routes

SR 2 Temporary

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  • State Route 2 temporary was a designation that ran from West 6th to East 9th along Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland. The designation was added when the final alignments of SR 2 were moved to the then new Lakeside Highway, later referred to as the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway. The route's eastern terminus was moved to Public Square via Ontario St. in 1957.

SR 2C

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SR 2D

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  • State Route 2D is part of a couplet in Wauseon, Ohio that is signed as State Route 2.[5][20] SR 2D is signed as SR 2 westbound,[20][21] while SR 2D is signed as SR 2 eastbound,[22] (except west of East Elm Street, where SR 2D meets SR 2 at its western terminus[23]). The route ends at the corner of East Linfoot Street and North Shoop Avenue.[20]

Cultural references

In the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway is used to depict a freeway in Washington, D.C.[24]

References

  1. [1]
    "Data Download - ODOT TIMS (Road Inventory shapefile)". Ohio Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  2. [2]
    Ohio State Highway Department (1912). Map of Ohio Showing Inter-County Highways (PDF) (Map). c. 1:563,200. Columbus: Ohio State Highway Department. OCLC 13716556.
  3. [3]
    Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works (September 1921). Highway Map of Ohio Showing Conditions for Travel (PDF) (Map). c. 1:563,200. Columbus: Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works.
  4. [4]
    Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works (April 1922). Map of Ohio State Highways Showing All Improved Roadways and Indicating System Constructed Under Administration of Gov. Harry L. Davis (PDF) (Map). c. 1:563,200. Columbus: Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works.
  5. [5]
    Ohio Department of Transportation. "Technical Services Straight Line Diagrams: SR 2D, Fulton County" (PDF). Retrieved October 12, 2013.
  6. [6]
    "Lake Erie Ohio Coastal Trail".[full citation needed]
  7. [7]
    "National Scenic Byway". Archived from the original on June 21, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.[full citation needed]
  8. [8]
    "Great Lakes Circle". Archived from the original on July 25, 2010.[full citation needed]
  9. [9]
    Ohio Revised Code 5533.66[full citation needed]
  10. [10]
    Ohio Revised Code 5533.63.2[full citation needed]
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    "Willoughby Family Mourns Loss of Marine Son". Cleveland: WEWS-TV. August 3, 2005. Archived from the original on November 5, 2005. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
  12. [12]
    "Pages: Official Transportation Maps". Ohio Department of Transportation.
  13. [13]
    Simpson, John. "Route 2". The Unofficial Ohio State Highways Web Site. Archived from the original on February 5, 2005.[self-published source]
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    Thoma, Pauline (August 31, 1990). "Celeste opens Huron Bypass". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
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    Ohio Department of Transportation District 12 (December 12, 2015). "West 73rd St Extension Opens link to Lake Erie on Cleveland's West Side" (Press release). Ohio Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 16, 2015.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    "Pages - West Shoreway & W 28th/W 45th Streets". Archived from the original on January 15, 2015.
  18. [18]
    "Cleveland Historical Maps (1979)". peoplemaps.esri. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  19. [19]
    Ohio Department of Transportation Technical Services Straight Line Diagram for SR 2C Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  20. [20]
    Google (October 28, 2015). "Eastern Terminus of SR 2D" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
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  23. [23]
    Google (October 28, 2015). "Western Terminus of SR 2D" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  24. [24]
    O'Connor, Clint (March 28, 2014). "Cleveland Is All Over 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
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