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Toledo [1] is a moderate-sized city in Northwest Ohio, on the Maumee River, at the edge of Lake Erie, and, most important, at the intersection of I-75 and I-80. Everybody travelling in the midwest United States has probably been through it at least once.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get In 2.1 By air 2.2 By bus 2.3 By train 3 Get Around 4 See 4.1 Annual events 5 Do 5.1 Outdoors 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 10 Get out

Understand

People had big dreams for Toledo. The city is set on some of the most inhospitable land in the Midwest: the Great Black Swamp. Early white settlers spent years digging ditches through the swamp and lining them with clay tiles, when they weren't catching mosquito-borne diseases. Michigan and Ohio briefly went to war (no shots were fired) over the land. Later settlers came over from Eastern Europe by the boatload, or up from down south, to work on the Erie Canal and in local factories that made cars and auto parts. To this day, Toledo is a union town; the bloody Auto-Lite strike of 1934 was a key event in labor history.

Today, Toledo is a city of 315,000 with a big local university, a decent independent daily newspaper, and a lot of empty space downtown that gets turned into artists' lofts. There's a huge and beautiful neighborhood of Victorian mansions near downtown, a world-class art museum, and a band in every garage. The food is worth stopping for: not only Tony Packo's famous hot dogs, but also classy Middle Eastern food, Hungarian baked goods, and a few good old diners.

Get In

By air

• The nearest airport is Toledo Express Airport (TOL)
• The nearest regional/international airport is Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) [2]

By bus

Greyhound [3] makes regular stops in Toledo. (Be warned: The bus stop is not in a safe area.)

Megabus [4] offers low-cost bus service to Toledo from Chicago and Cleveland.

By train

Amtrak's Capitol Limited and Lake Shore Limited routes both stop at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza train depot.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza

415 Emerald Ave

Get Around

• TARTA [5] -- local public transportation

See

• Toledo Museum of Art -- 2445 Monroe St. (at Scottwood Avenue), Toledo; 419-255-8000 (tdd); 800-644-6862 (tdd). Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.This is a fantastic, world-class museum. Free.http://www.toledomuseum.org/home.html

• The Old West End -- the blocks south of the Art Museum. Historic neighborhood full of huge old mansions and 100-year-old trees. You can tour these homes at Christmas and at a festival the first weekend in June. http://www.oldwestendtoledo.com/
• Toledo Zoo, 2 Hippo Way, ☎ Phone: +1-419-385-4040, http://www.toledozoo.org. May 1 - Labor Day: 10 AM - 5 PM, Labor Day - April 30: 10 AM - 4 PM. Adults: $10, Children: $7.

Annual events

• Lights Before Christmas
• Crosby Gardens Arts Festival
• Monster trucks

Do

• Rally by the River
• Motorhead
• Eat
• Go to the East Side

Outdoors

• Metroparks
• State Parks
• Boating on the Maumee

Buy

Eat

Local specialties include,Tony Packo's Pickles'n'Peppers, salt-rising bread from Wixey Bakery and handmade noodles.

• Tony Packo's. Made world famous by several mentions on the TV series M*A*S*H by Max Klinger (played by Toledo native Jamie Farr).
• Wixey Bakery

Drink

Sleep

• Clarion Toledo Hotel Westgate, 3536 Secor Road, +1-419 535-7070, [6]. Nr. University of Toledo
• Wyndham Toledo Hotel, 2 Seagate/Summit Street, +1-419 241-1411, fax: +1-419 241-8161. [7]. An oasis of tranquility in the center of Toledo's bustling downtown.
• Hotel Seagate, 141 North Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604, Phone: (866) 744-5711, Fax: (419) 242-1337. [8]. A suite hotel close to the Seagate Convention Center that features meeting space, free wireless internet, and close local attractions.

Get out

• Cedar Point amusement park is about an hour east in Sandusky.
• Cleveland is a couple hours east on I-90 and the Ohio Turnpike.
• Michigan is just north of town and Detroit is one hour north on I-75.
• Along the southern shore of Lake Erie are a large number of public North Coast Beaches. The beach at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, just east of Toledo is one of the nicest.
• Located east of Toledo and west of Cleveland, a group of picturesque and festive Lake Erie Islands are accessible via ferry. In addition to several Ohio State Parks [9] located on the islands, there is plenty to do including wineries, restaurants, bars, marinas and beaches.

• Lake Erie Tour Route and Lighthouses. Go back to the mainland and see the shoreline. The drive (or boat ride) around Lake Erie takes you through the Working Waterfronts around Buffalo NY, Cleveland OH, Detroit MI, Erie PA, Toledo, OH, and southern Ontario and is intermingled with beautiful preservations of flora and fauna as well as the history of North America's first westward expansion, the Old Northwest Territory.

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