I’ve been to Cedar Point thre times since we moved to Dayton last year. There doesn’t seem to be a ‘best’ way to get there – just a few equally sucky ways. I’ve used all kinds of mapping programs – both online and offline – and they all give a slightly different suggestion. In a nutshell, there seems to be three basic suggested routes that are all similar in time, but not distance. I’m still undecided as to how we’ll go this time, but here’s the skinny:
Route 1 (I-75 to 6) – 194 miles, 3 hours 34 minutes
Route 2 (I-70 to I-71 to 250) – 189 miles, 3 hours 35 minutes
Route 3 (Smaller roads) – 154 miles, 3 hours 47 minutes
We’ve tried Routes 2 & 3 in the past. I think we might go with Route #1 this weekend – just to mix it up. I’m not a small roads kind of guy and while the shortest in distance, that route is the longest in time…and also dependent on how fast the people in front of you are going. The Columbus route is decent enough (that’s a long time to be on 250), but if you hit Columbus at the wrong time, you’re sitting in traffic. The Bowling Green route seems to give me lots of highway while avoiding traffic backups and keeping me from getting stuck behind slow drivers.
We’ll see, I guess.
We’re taking route #1. Last year I tried to cut over from Findlay but that was a joke.
Wanna carpool? ;)
6 is really slow if I remember correctly… If it’s a Fri night trip, I say go with whatever, but if it’s a Sat AM trip I’d go with #2.
I’m assuming Friday is your travel day though, with you being a hotel guy and all…
Either way, it should be a good time.
was this blog post just so you could use the new Google Maps features or is there really an issue here? ;-)
Sadly, it is an issue. I spend way too much time considering thngs like this.