Have You Made Your Reservations for the August 21 Total Solar Eclipse?

There are less than two months until the August 21 total solar eclipse. The path of totality will pass from coast to coast across the entire continental United States. The path of totality is about 70 miles wide. So, there are lots of great places in the U.S. you can see the event.

The Path of Totality for the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Image Credit: NASA

If you are coming from outside the path of totality and hope to stay overnight within the path August 20, before the August 21 event, you should make your plans now if you have not done so already. Hotels are filing up fast, and are already filled up in some locations.

Please do not wing this! The Department of Transportation is asking that people DO NOT pull off to the side of the interstate. Visit the DoT website where you can see how traffic may be affected by the eclipse. Visit the Fact Sheet link below.

2017 Solar Eclipse Transportation Fact Sheet for State and Local Departments of Transportation

Here are the states through which the center line of the path of totality will pass.

• Oregon
• Idaho
• Wyoming
• Nebraska
• Kansas
• Missouri
• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Georgia
• South Carolina

To get more of an idea of the location of the path of totality, check out this list of major cities that will be in the path.

• Corvallis, Albany and Lebanon, Oregon
• Idaho Falls, Idaho
• Casper, Wyoming
• Grand Island, Lincoln Nebraska
• St Joseph, Missouri
• Kansas City, Kansas
• St Louis, Missouri
• Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Greenville, South Carolina
• Columbia, South Carolina

The website Eclipse2017.org has a great page to see what cities will be in the path and how long totality will last at those locations. Follow the link below.

Cities that lie in the Path of Totality

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