Interstate 280 (
I-280) is a 12.41-mile-long highway that connects
I-75 in northeast
Toledo, Ohio with
I-80/
I-90 (part of the
Ohio Turnpike) southeast of the city in northeastern
Wood County, Ohio. Built between 1955 and 1959, the route was originally part of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway. Although first designated in 1959, the highway originally contained several at-grade intersections and other features which left it substandard to the Interstate Highway System until 1990. Further construction in 2007 built a new crossing of the
Maumee River, replacing an outdated
drawbridge. The highway serves an easterly bypass of metropolitan Toledo, passing through the communities of
Northwood and
Oregon. It is one of two auxiliary Interstate highways serving Toledo, the other being
Interstate 475.