Sylvania is a small city of 19,000 people (2020) in Ohio Erie shore west. Sylvania is a northwestern suburb of Toledo, on the Ohio side of the border with Michigan.
Understand
[edit]Named for the dense forests that once made up the region, part of the Great Black Swamp, the city is built on large shale deposits, which over hundreds of years have been mined in quarries to make concrete, cement and other stone products.
Get in
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Map of Sylvania (Ohio)
By car
[edit]US 23 and US 233 cuts through the east end of Sylvania running north to Michigan and south to Holland, Ohio.
Get around
[edit]- TARTA Flex. On demand public transit service covering Sylvania and the broader Toledo metro.
See
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- 1 Sylvania Historical Village, 5717 N Main St (Downtown), ☏ +1 419-517-5533. Includes a preserved 1858 railway depot, a replica one room schoolhouse made of stone, a replica barn, a log cabin, and a garden commemorating the sister city of Woodstock in Ontario.
- 2 Lourdes University, 6832 Convent Blvd, toll-free: +1-800-878-3210. A private Franciscan university. Hosts the Appold Planetarium.
- A steel beam from the World Trade Center forms part of the 9/11 First Responders Last Call Memorial at the Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery.
Do
[edit]- 1 Marathon Classic (Dana Open). Annual golf tournament.
- 2 Sylvania Tam-O-Shanter. Athletics complex.
- 3 Fossil Park, 5675 Centennial Rd. 8:30AM to 5:30PM or later depending on month. Opens mid-April to October. This public park lets visitors collect and take home fossils out of a former quarry. Free.
Buy
[edit]- 1 Hudson Gallery, 5645 N Main St (Downtown), ☏ +1 419-885-8381, [email protected]. Tu-F 10AM-6PM, Sa 10AM-3PM. Contemporary art gallery. Free.
Eat
[edit]- Chandler Cafe, 5648 N Main St.
Drink
[edit]- Inside the Five Brewery, 5703 Main St, ☏ +1 567-408-7212. Brewery with food offerings.
Sleep
[edit]- 1 Wingate by Wyndham Sylvania, 5480 S Main St, ☏ +1 419-517-2000. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: noon. Offers free WiFi, breakfast, a fitness center, and a business center. Rooms have HD flatscreen TVs. ~$135.
Connect
[edit]- 1 Sylvania Branch Library, 6749 Monroe St, ☏ +1 419-882-2089. Branch of the Toledo Public Library system.
Cope
[edit]- 2 Flower Hospital, 5200 Harroun Rd, ☏ +1 419-824-1444. Hospital offering emergency services, as well as non-emergency care.