11 Best Ways to Cruise Ohio's Lake Erie Shoreline - Lake Erie Living
From Toledo to Ashtabula, check out these stops along Ohio’s stretch of Lake Erie for beach days, boat rides, birding, sunsets, live music and plenty of great food.
Toledo
Take the Glass City River Wall boat tour (jmcruiselines.com) for a view of the city from the water, including the United States’ largest mural, which depicts portraits of three generations of Native Americans amidst a swath of sunflowers. Prefer to tour on wheels? Check out The Ribbon, the city’s newest park feature, where you can roller skate a 1,000-foot-long loop trail in the summer (or ice skate in the winter). Dine on the river at The Docks, choosing between Zia’s Italian, Real Seafood Co., Glass City Steakhouse and El Vaquero at the Docks.
Oak Harbor
It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it type place, unless you’re a bird — or a birder. Imagine you’re a warbler migrating north and come upon a giant body of water, and directly in front of it there are thousands of acres of wetland, providing both cover and a smorgasbord of buggy dining options. You’d stop for a rest. That’s what makes Magee Marsh Wildlife Area such a birding hotspot and the site of The Biggest Week in American Birding (biggestweekinamericanbirding.com), held May 9-18. Come for the birds, of course, but also to see the parking lot full of Subarus adorned with bird-loving novelty plates and bumper stickers and the trails packed with binocular-toting birders from all over the world.
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