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Here Are the Best Places to View the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Weather predictions and population statistics show the best spots to see the total solar eclipse over North America this April

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I recently booked a campsite inside totality, about 5 hours from here. Going down Sunday, coming back Tuesday.

When we went to see the last one, we did it all in one day. That was a mistake. Traffic on the way there was bad, traffic out after was horrible. If you have a plan to travel for this, it would serve you well to try and avoid having to travel back on Monday, unless you're already pretty close.

Edit: I'll also add - bring your own food and water for your whole trip; do not expect to be able to buy anything on the road, especially on the return trip. We stopped at the sketchiest Chinese restaurant I have ever seen, and they were out of rice.

[–] BLAMM 1 points 9 months ago

Doing the same, except I'm doing it with a bunch of friends and we're making a gaming convention out of it at a ski resort. EclipseCon 2024 running from Apr 6 to Apr 9. I've been planning this since 2020, when I first heard the eclipse was going to pass close by.