Explore 18 reservations spanning more than 25,000 acres with more than 325 miles of trails, nine golf courses, eight lakefront parks and a nationally-acclaimed zoo. Brecksville Reservation is the largest Cleveland Metroparks reservation at over 4,300 acres.
Currents in Lake Erie can be dangerous! Any current flowing faster than 2 mph is considered dangerous. Dangerous currents can exceed 5 mph — faster than an Olympic swimmer can swim. Currents can pull swimmers away from shore.
The “Mistake on the Lake” nickname gained wider use after the 1969 CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE and became a regular nickname for Cleveland throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- You can't see across Lake Erie to Canada. (Well, occasionally, on hot spring days a temperature inversion allows you to see a hazy image of land, 50 miles across the water.)
Lake Erie is the most densely populated Great Lake, with large metropolitan areas on the U.S. shore like Detroit, MI; Toledo, OH; Cleveland, OH; and Buffalo, NY. Lake Erie's basin includes the largest percentage of agricultural land in the Great Lakes, particularly along Erie's western and northern shores.
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States maritime border and lies approximately 60 mi (97 km) west of Pennsylvania.
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