U.S. Route 24 in Ohio

This article is about the section of highway in Ohio. For the entire length of highway, see U.S. Route 24.

U.S. Route 24
Map US 24 highlighted in red across northwestern Ohio
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Length	83.33 mi (134.11 km)
Major junctions
West end	US 24 near Antwerp
Major intersections	US 127 near Cecil US 6 near Napoleon I-475 / US 23 in Maumee US 20 in Maumee I-75 in Toledo
East end	US 24 in Toledo
Location
Country	United States
State	Ohio
Counties	Paulding, Defiance, Henry, Lucas
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Ohio State Highway System Interstate US State Scenic
← SR 23 → SR 24

U.S. Route 24 (US 24) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs from Minturn, Colorado, to Independence Township, Michigan. In Ohio, it is an expressway and freeway for much of its length, from the Indiana state line to Maumee. From there northeast to the Michigan state line at Toledo, it is a surface highway.

Route description

Part of the US 24 freeway in Ohio

From the Indiana state line easterly to Baltimore Street at the border of unincorporated Defiance Township and the city of Defiance, US 24 is an expressway which mostly has interchanges, but features intersections with select county and township roads. From Baltimore Street to State Route 281 at the border of Defiance and unincorporated Noble Township, US 24 is a freeway. From SR 281 to US 6 west in Henry County's Napoleon Township, US 24 is once again an expressway. From US 6 west to Interstate 475 (I-475) in the city of Maumee, US 24 is a freeway. The route continues northeasterly as a surface street through downtown Maumee and the western side of Toledo, where it turns into Telegraph Road and stays on it past the Michigan state line. The route then continues northerly into Michigan as a north–south highway.

History

The original route of US 24 closely followed the Maumee River from the Indiana state line to downtown Toledo. Much of the original route has been given county road designations, often as CR 424. A portion of the old route that was bypassed between Defiance and Napoleon between 1964 and 1969 was designated SR 424 until 2012. The original route through Toledo followed North River Road, transitioning into Broadway Street and Summit Street, before turning northwesterly along Jefferson Avenue, to Collingwood Boulevard, continuing northward to Detroit Avenue via a short connection on Cherry Street. The route along Detroit Avenue from Cherry Street to Telegraph Road, and Telegraph into Michigan, has always been part of US 24 since its designation. As the Anthony Wayne Trail was completed from the south side into downtown, US 24 was shifted onto the new route, feeding into a one-way pair along Erie and Michigan Streets to Monroe Avenue, before returning to Collingwood and its original alignment. Portions of these routes were at times concurrent with portions of US 23 and US 25.

The concurrent segment with US 25 between Conant Street/US 20 and the intersection of Anthony Wayne Trail and Detroit Street (crossing over the Ohio Turnpike) became a concurrency with SR 25 following US 25's decommissioning in Ohio and Michigan in 1973, as SR 25 replaced US 25 along Detroit Avenue to the Cherry Street/US 24 intersection. The former concurrency along Detroit Avenue to Telegraph Road became just US 24, while the northernmost section of Detroit Avenue reverted to local control. The route of US 24 in the Toledo–Maumee area would remain unchanged until 1986, when ODOT switched the US 24 and SR 25 designations, placing US 24 on Detroit Avenue and rerouting SR 25 to continue northeasterly from Monroe Street via the Erie/Michigan one-way couplet to the Greenbelt Parkway and a new terminus at I-280.

Upgrades to the route around Napoleon began in 2008. This included the construction of a new route from east of Napoleon to north of Waterville, bypassing the original routing of the highway. This rerouting was done to "alleviate safety concerns caused by the mixture of truck traffic and residential travel" along US 24's former routing. New alignments west of Defiance through to I-469 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, were also built in the late 2000s. The conversion to an expressway, first proposed in 1969, was done due to the high number of road accidents along the old alignment, which comprised only two lanes and was frequently used by tractor-trailers.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Paulding	Carryall Township	0.00	0.00		US 24 west – Fort Wayne	Continuation into Indiana
				Eastern end of freeway; western end of expressway
	Crane Township	3.32– 4.18	5.34– 6.73	3	SR 49 – Antwerp, Payne	Diamond interchange
	Emerald Township	12.38– 13.19	19.92– 21.23	13	US 127 – Sherwood, Paulding, Cecil	Diamond interchange
Defiance	Defiance Township–Defiance line	22.47– 22.96	36.16– 36.95	Eastern end of expressway; western end of freeway
				22	Baltimore Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange
	Noble Township	24.97– 25.44	40.19– 40.94	25	SR 15 / SR 18 – Bryan, Defiance	Diamond interchange
	Defiance	25.90– 26.41	41.68– 42.50	26	SR 66 – Archbold, Defiance	Diamond interchange
	Defiance–Richland Township line	27.78– 28.60	44.71– 46.03	28	SR 281 (Domersville Road)	Diamond interchange
				Eastern end of freeway; western end of expressway
Henry	Napoleon Township	38.83– 39.32	62.49– 63.28	Eastern end of expressway; western end of freeway
				39	US 6 west – Kendallville (Indiana), Chicago	Western end of US 6 concurrency; partial cloverleaf interchange
		40.10– 40.34	64.53– 64.92	40	SR 108 / US 6 Bus. – Wauseon, Napoleon	Partial cloverleaf interchange
	Liberty Township	41.38– 41.90	66.59– 67.43	41	Industrial Drive	Diamond interchange
		43.64	70.23	43	US 6 east to CR 424 / SR 110 – Bowling Green	Eastern end of US 6 concurrency; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; entrance ramp flies under eastbound lanes and merges on the left
		46.54– 47.16	74.90– 75.90	47	SR 109 – Liberty Center, Malinta	Diamond interchange
Lucas	Providence Township	56.91– 57.39	91.59– 92.36	57	SR 295 – Whitehouse, Grand Rapids (Ohio)	Diamond interchange
	Waterville Township	62.81– 63.32	101.08– 101.90	63	SR 64 – Whitehouse, Waterville	Diamond interchange
	Waterville–Monclova township line	65.62– 66.09	105.61– 106.36	66	Anthony Wayne Trail – Waterville	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; exit ramp flies under US 24
	Maumee	66.49– 66.93	107.01– 107.71	67	Fallen Timbers Lane	Access to The Shops at Fallen Timbers; partial cloverleaf interchange, was originally signed Jerome Road, Stitt Road
		67.65– 68.26	108.87– 109.85	68	I-475 / US 23 – Dayton, Ann Arbor (Michigan)	Cloverleaf interchange; signed as 68A (south) and 68B (north); exit 4 on I-475
				Eastern end of freeway
		69.77	112.28		US 20 / SR 25 south (Conant Street) to I-80 / I-90 / Ohio Turnpike	Southern end of SR 25 concurrency
	Maumee–Toledo city line	72.14	116.10		SR 25 north (Anthony Wayne Trail) / South Detroit Avenue	Northern end of SR 25 concurrency
	Toledo	75.80	121.99		SR 2 (Airport Highway)
		77.48	124.69		SR 246 (Dorr Street)
		78.37	126.12		SR 51 (Monroe Street)
		78.54– 78.65	126.40– 126.57		I-75 – Detroit, Dayton	Exit 203B on I-75
		79.42	127.81		SR 120 (Central Avenue)
		82.76	133.19		SR 184 (Alexis Road)	Last intersection as Telegraph Road
		83.33	134.11		US 24 north (Telegraph Road) – Monroe, Detroit	Continuation into Michigan
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

External links

• U.S. Route 24 Realignment/Expansion ODOT website