Best and worst times to travel for July 4th holiday

COLUMBUS -Roads will be busy for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. AAA is predicting an estimated 71 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home.

ODOT will work to suspend as much road work as possible, but you will still see active projects on I-75 in Dayton and Cincinnati, I-70 in Zanesville, I-70/71 in Columbus, and several projects in Akron. Real-time travel information is available at OHGO.com and with the OHGO app.

Below are ODOT travel forecasts for Ohio from 2019, the last time July 4 fell on a Thursday.