Towing in Sharon Woods, Columbus

From the southwest side the driver runs I-71 north through downtown and past the Morse Road exits, then takes the ramp onto East Dublin-Granville Road, which is the neighborhood's southern border. From there it is a short trip east to Karl Road, Sharon Woods Boulevard or Maple Canyon Avenue. Homes near Schrock Road at the north end can sometimes be reached faster by way of I-270 and its Cleveland Avenue interchange. Expect 20–40 minutes in most conditions, and give dispatch your street plus the closest cross street.

Not quite. The neighborhood lies inside Columbus south of I-270, while Sharon Woods Metro Park sits north of the outerbelt at 6911 Cleveland Avenue, spreading across 761 acres around 11-acre Schrock Lake. We cover both. A car that will not start in a park lot after a loop on the paved 3.8-mile Multipurpose Trail gets the same response as one in a neighborhood driveway, so just tell dispatch which lot you are in. Neither one is the Sharon Woods park near Cincinnati, which is a separate place in Hamilton County.

The outerbelt runs only a short distance above Schrock Road, between its interchange with I-71 to the west and the Cleveland Avenue ramps to the east, so traffic there is constantly merging. If the car can still move, work over to the right shoulder or the next ramp, turn on the hazards and remain buckled in. Stalled in a travel lane? Dial 911 before anything else. Then call us with your direction, eastbound or westbound, and the nearest exit, and we will dispatch an emergency tow.

The residential streets here are public, so a car blocking your driveway from the curb can only be towed on the order of the Columbus Division of Police; ring their non-emergency number and an officer can decide. We cannot remove it at a homeowner's request. Private lots are handled another way. Apartment landlords and shopping-center owners along East Dublin-Granville Road can authorize private-property towing once Ohio-required signs are posted at every entrance, and we document each car we take.

You pick the stop: your regular mechanic, a dealer, a partner repair shop or back to your driveway. If the shop cannot take the car right away, it can wait at our Harrisburg Pike lot for a per-day storage fee. The dispatcher quotes the job from our rate card before anything is hooked up, and that number does not change at drop-off. Payment by card or cash is taken when the tow is finished, and you get an itemized invoice to keep.

Yes. The boulevard is lined with congregations that have their own lots, including the Church of the Good Shepherd at 6176, where the civic association holds its monthly meetings, and St. Elizabeth Catholic Church at 6077. Tell dispatch which lot and which driveway you are near. If the battery tests bad after the jump, a mobile battery replacement can often be done right in the space, which saves a tow to a shop. Cold mornings are when these calls pile up.