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Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands

📍 Cleveland, USA · Kiteboarding spot

Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands is a kiteboarding spot near Cleveland in USA, with flat-water lake conditions and prevailing E, SW, W wind.

CountryUSA
RegionOhio
Nearest townCleveland
Water typeFlat-water lake
LaunchLake
Best wind directionE, SW, W
Wind typeFrontal
Coordinates41.7550, -81.2944

About Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands

Lake Erie, though a lake it is a great lake and will get sufficiently choppy with short period wind chop up to 1-2m if wind is heavy with an onshore component. Water is deep 10m off shore.

What are the wind and water conditions?

Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands offers flat-water lake conditions with E, SW, W wind (Frontal wind), launching from lake.

How do I get to Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands?

90 or 2 east of Cleveland, 20 miles distance. North on 44 for 2 miles. Drive into the state park. Pull all the way to the left (South) end of the huge parking lot when you arrive.

Hazards at Lake Erie / Mentor Headlands

Swimmers.

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Spot data last updated 2026-07-20 · part of the KiteGlobe database of 6,633 kiteboarding spots.