I’d love to know some natural viewing areas, state parks and such.
“I’d love to know some natural viewing areas, state parks and such.”
https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/activities/nature-viewing/2017-solar-eclipse
Trail of Tears state park is a few miles north of Cape Girardeau and has a campground right on the Mississippi. Hawn state park is close to Ste. Genevieve. Just hoping for clear skies-my only other eclipse got clouded out just a few minutes from totality. Travelled to Hawaii for that one, just have step outside my front door for this one.
You might consider the Mark Twain National Forest area between Ashland and Fulton. This area is quite large but doesn’t get a lot of traffic. I’m not aware of any formal eclipse viewing activities scheduled here so it’s possible that you could find some solitude. And, yes, the name says Forest but there are a lot of open fields and glades in the region that would provide good viewing of the sky.
You probably won’t find any hotel rooms nearby, though, as Columbia and Jefferson City both have a bunch of eclipse related activities scheduled.