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Nearest hills to Ohio’s cities

Ohio is wide enough that the nearest hill changes with where you start. For Toledo it is in Michigan. For Cincinnati it is in Indiana. These pages measure from each city and quote what the nearby hills say about getting there.

No snow report here. We don’t know what any hill is doing today, and nothing on this page tells you whether to drive. Hours, lifts, lanes and snow are the operator’s to report: follow the link to its own page first. Why we work this way.

Which Ohio hill is closest to each city?

Miles are straight lines between two points, worked out from their coordinates. They are not road miles and not drive times; roads are longer, and a lake or a river can make them much longer. Which points, and where they come from.

How are the miles worked out?

Each distance is the great-circle distance between two points, rounded to the mile. It is a straight line over the map. We don’t publish drive times of our own, because we haven’t driven them and a routing service’s answer changes with traffic and weather. Where an operator prints its own drive times or road miles, the city pages quote them.

A city’s point is the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder’s match for its city hall. A hill’s point is the same geocoder’s match for the street address the operator prints. Where the geocoder had no match for that address, the point is the coordinate on the hill’s Wikidata item, and for one hill it is the pair of coordinates the operator prints. The same script that checks the quotes looks every point up again and stops if one has moved.

Geocoder: U.S. Census Bureau. Wikidata coordinates are offered under CC0. A Wikidata point for a park or a resort marks the place, not its parking lot, so a mile either way is within its meaning.

Which hills are counted?

Ohio’s four ski areas (five points, since Boston Mills and Brandywine are separate hills) and the out-of-state hills on our beyond Ohio page. That page says how its list was chosen and which official sites refused our reader.