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16-461: [REDACTED] SR 2 from Bratenahl to Painesville Township The Lakeland Freeway (often called "Route 2" in the section that carries solely Ohio State Route 2 ) is a limited-access freeway in the northeastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio . It runs with and parallel to Interstate 90 , and follows the shore of Lake Erie , linking the suburban areas of Lake County to Cleveland and Cuyahoga County . The Lakeland Freeway passes through

32-761: A Marine Lance Corporal who was killed in the Iraq War in August 2005. In the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier , the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway is used to depict a freeway in Washington, D.C. Cleveland Memorial Shoreway The Shoreway was originally constructed in 1936 under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and was extended in both directions during

48-546: Is also called Edgewater Parkway . The Shoreway began as a 4-mile (6.4 km) roadway from East Ninth Street to East 55th Street built in 1930s using Works Progress Administration workers, and it served as access to the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936. It was the largest WPA project in the country. Within two years the roadway was extended to the Illuminating Company plant adjacent to Gordon Park, and it

64-625: The Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station . SR 2 is the lowest numbered state route in Ohio. SR 1 was decommissioned in 1965. 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 . The section of SR 2 that runs through Willoughby is named "Brian Montgomery Memorial Highway" in honor of

80-601: 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

96-590: The 1930s and 1940s, finally completed and widened in 1953. Later in the 1950s, it was connected with additional freeways. It was named in honor of the city's war veterans during World War II . Between 2014 and 2018, the West Shoreway, the portion of the Shoreway from the Cuyahoga River westward, was reconstructed and, in 2016, was named the "Governor Richard F. Celeste Shoreway"; since the reconstruction, this section

112-526: The 1960s. In 2003, average daily traffic ranged from about 94,100 at the I-90/SR 2 split to 31,200 east of Painesville. The Lake County section of freeway was authorized by Lake County Commissioners in 1957, and constructed and opened to traffic in the early 1960s. It was blended into the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway at the western end in Cuyahoga County; because of that, the "Shoreway" name is often applied to

128-561: The Lakeland Freeway from its west end to the I-90/SR 2 split. Ohio State Route 2 State Route 2 ( SR 2 ), formerly known as Inter-county Highway 2 until 1921 and State Highway 2 in 1922, 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

144-465: The city and county planning departments and the state highway department developed a master plan for freeways throughout the area. However, the only additional freeway built was the Willow Freeway . The Memorial Shoreway permitted crosstown traffic with some stops but was incomplete between East 55th Street and East 72nd Street. In 1953 a further addition connected the sections of Shoreway and widened

160-477: The highway designated the "Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail". and on September 22, 2005, was designated a National Scenic Byway . 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". It then passes Sandusky , where it meets U.S. Route 250 (US 250) and US 6 , and separates from

176-621: 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

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192-583: The municipalities of Cleveland , Euclid , Wickliffe , Willowick , Willoughby , Eastlake , Mentor , Painesville , and Painesville Township . The freeway is eight lanes in the I-90/SR 2 section. The SR 2 section to the east had consisted of six lanes only to Vine Street , but the third lane in each direction was extended to SR 44 between 2006 and 2012. It then narrows to four lanes from there to its eastern terminus in Painesville Township at US 20. The freeway has seen tremendous growth since it opened in

208-588: The original highway to make it an 8-lane, nonstop freeway. The Interstate Highway Act in 1956 provided the funding to complete much of the freeway system planned in 1944. As part of this effort, the Memorial Shoreway was joined to the new Lakeland Freeway , which by 1963 stretched eastward toward Painesville . The Shoreway west of the Main Avenue Bridge was rebuilt in order to increase ease of access to Lake Erie. Preliminary construction began in 2014;

224-595: The route is in Painesville Township in Lake County at U.S. Route 20 (US 20). It passes through Bryan , Wauseon (where it briefly becomes a couplet ), 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

240-445: Was extended to Bratenahl at East 140th Street in 1941. The roadway was envisioned as part of a larger system of high speed highways in the city. A West Shore Drive from Edgewater Park to Rocky River was planned, but further construction was interrupted by World War II . After the War, the previously unnamed highway became the Memorial Shoreway in honor of Cleveland's war veterans. In 1944,

256-499: Was opened for traffic in 1938, although planning delays prevented WPA from laying a second strip of pavement and building grade separations from side streets. After the completion of the Main Avenue Bridge in 1940, the highway was extended westward to Edgewater Park (since 2013 part of the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation). The East Ninth Street interchange was also completed in 1940. The highway

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