^Looking north from the split with Ohio 43 in Warrensville, October 2022.

​Ohio State Route 8 runs from Cleveland to Akron. The northernmost piece is a concurrency with US Route 422, and the southernmost piece is a freeway that seems to serve as an extension to Interstate 271.  As many other routes do, Ohio Route 8 has an endpoint at Cleveland's Public Square, right downtown.  US Route 422 also starts there, and Ohio Route 8 joins it east out of downtown. At Shaker Heights, Ohio Route 8 finally gets the chance to start out on its own.  Ohio Route 8 takes that chance to go straight south as a surface road through other Cleveland suburbs like Bedford and Northfield.  At Macedonia, Ohio, Ohio Route 8 crosses Interstate 271 and becomes a freeway.  Essentially, Ohio Route 8 spends its last stretch serving as a freeway extension connecting Interstate 271 to Akron.  The southern end of this freeway, and Ohio Route 8 itself, occurs at the interchange where Interstate 77 bends from northerly to westerly along Interstate 76.

My photo of Ohio State Route 8 signage shows a northbound trailblazer seen by travelers turning off of Ohio Route 43 in Warrensville Heights.  The intersection home to this sign is just west of Interstate 271 and just north of Interstate 480. This photo was taken in October 2022, as part of the grand tour around northeastern Ohio.
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