Historic National Road - Ohio
Historic National Road - Ohio is an All-American Road in Ohio. Within Ohio it covers roughly 230 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Historic National Road - Ohio with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Ohio's stretch of the Historic National Road runs 225 miles from Bridgeport, across the river from Wheeling, West Virginia, to the Indiana line near Richmond. It's part of the Historic National Road All-American Road, a 2002 federal designation shared with Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois along America's first federally funded highway. The Ohio segment crosses 10 counties and a string of old "pike towns" that grew up around stagecoach stops in the early 1800s, including New Concord, home to the John and Annie Glenn Historic Site, the National Road-Zane Grey Museum, and a rare surviving section paved in brick. Most of the original alignment became US 40 once the national highway numbering system arrived in 1926, but long stretches still carry the older, slower two-lane feel.
- 225 miles across Ohio
- All-American Road (2002)
- John & Annie Glenn Historic Site
- National Road-Zane Grey Museum
- historic brick-paved sections
- 10 Ohio counties
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What is an All-American Road?
All-American Roads are the top tier of America's National Scenic Byways. To earn the title a road has to be a destination in its own right — offering features so exceptional, across several intrinsic qualities (scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational), that they can't be found anywhere else.