The Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve's 1.5-mile shoreline is the longest stretch of publicly accessible natural beach in Ohio and, as one of the last remnants of a wild beach in the state, harbors a very specialized plant community. In 1928, the Lake County Commissioners began building a bridge to connect Lakeshore Boulevard with a new housing development promoted as an exclusive summer colony, but the stock market crash of 1929 caused the Mentor Harbor Company to collapse and the property returned to the B&O Railroad. Because the roads to and from the bridge were never built, it became known as the Bridge to Nowhere and was featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not as the only bridge with no beginning and no end.
