I continue to slowly update and refresh all of my road-trip posts, enhancing photos, clarifying text, and adding new details. I’ve now finished doing that for the many posts from my 2011 trip along the National Road in Ohio.
Here are all of the posts:
- And so ended our vacation — I wrecked my car after entering Ohio on the road. Whee.
- Clinching the National Road — Two years later, I returned to Ohio to try again. I succeeded.
- Saying goodbye to the old bridge at Bridgeport — When I wrote this, the bridge still stood. Not anymore.
- Bricks and bridges at Blaine — An 1828 bridge, with its brick deck, preserved alongside a more modern bridge.
- Then there was the time I-70 jumped out in front of my car — Seriously. I about pooped my pants.
- The disrupted National Road — I-70 clings to the National Road so closely over these 18 miles that sometimes they’re the same road.
- They say the old S bridge is crumbling, but it held up my car just fine — An 1828 S bridge that you can still drive on, or at least you could when I wrote this.
- The last drivable National Road S bridge closed due to heavy trucks — That driveable S bridge? Yeah, it’s closed now.
- The house on Best Road — On an old alignment high over current US 40 stands a gorgeous 1870s home.
- Old buildings in Old Washington — A National Road town so well preserved it’s like stepping back in time.
- Crooked little bridges, well preserved — Two bypassed S bridges that have been restored.
- When someone tells me to hit the bricks, I take it literally — Several still-driveable sections of brick National Road laid in about 1917 remain in eastern Ohio.
- A quick tour of Zanesville — A well-preserved downtown, the famous Y bridge, and an unexpected sight.
- Concrete evidence — In 1914, 24 miles of experimental concrete were laid down on the National Road. Little bits of it remain.
- Improving the rutted road — Historic National Road photos from across Ohio.
- Stepping back in time for an overnight stay — 1950s-era motels still in operation in Columbus.
- Landmarks and historic architecture in Columbus —Seeing the sights along the National Road as it passes through town.
- The Main Street Bridge — There’s a new bridge over Main Street in Columbus. It’s a beauty.
- Serving the National Road traveler — Historic inns from the time when covered wagons were the road’s usual traffic.
- Seeing the sights in Springfield — I lingered in Springfield for a while because there was so much to see.
- Whatever happened to Tadmor? — It used to be a town on the National Road, at least until just after the flood of 1913.
- I stopped at McDonald’s on my last road trip — But not the McDonald’s you’re thinking about.
