Sylvania (Ohio)

city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States

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

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

By car

US 23 and US 233 cuts through the east end of Sylvania running north to Michigan and south to Holland, Ohio.

Get around

  • TARTA Flex. On demand public transit service covering Sylvania and the broader Toledo metro. (updated Dec 2023)

See

The original Sylvania railroad depot, along the Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad, now part of the Sylvania Historical Village

Do

  • 🌍 Marathon Classic (Dana Open). Annual golf tournament. (updated Dec 2023)
  • 🌍 Sylvania Tam-O-Shanter. Athletics complex. (updated Dec 2023)
  • 🌍 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. (updated Dec 2023)

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