Originally Posted by
dewaday
Okay, you asked.
You'd think downtown Cleveland would have some excellent lakeside trails, but you'd be wrong. From E. 9th St. your hemmed in by an airport to the east and a deep water port to the west. Apparently our founding fathers never considered public access to the lakefront, and it's been a huge point of contention ever since.
Geez that felt like the Convention Bureau, hope it helps.
The lakefront airport is all land fill. When I was a little kid it was a dump with open fires. The Western part "Whiskey Island" got cut off from downtown (now with limited access) when they re-routed the river over 100 years ago. If the city didn't start as an industrial port, none of us would live here now. Many of those new ideas limit access to the city and would force traffic to other already overcrowded routes.