Posted on 08/14/2017 11:22:55 AM PDT by MNDude
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.
I went to high school in Chesterfield. That’s very nice they are closing so the employees can see it! What a thoughtful thing to do.
Wow! This is perfect. Thank you!
I live in Athens, just across the river from Spring City, and they have been warning us for a month about heavy congestion and LOTS of people from out of state. Athens is right smack in the middle of it’s path.
I know. It’s a 10 hours drive for me, but I’ll be hanging with friends so either way.
Don’t have my glasses yet though. My neighbor offered a welding helmet.
Last weather I saw for my area was showers but it’s early.
I and my Mom and sister will be coming from Oak Ridge. I figured Spring City, being on the west side of Watts Bar Lake, would be less congested than trying to go straight south of Knoxville, such as the Athens area.
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Besides, all the artificial lighting will make it hard to see.
I’ll be traveling out of Lebanon to south and east of La Grande.
A strip of exposed 35mm film will do the trick. The stuff should be pretty cheap by the roll with digital cameras being the norm these days.
I am taking the day off and will probably be in Columbia with my eldest son for a training activity. My wife, and other kids are going to visiting family in Higginsville to see it. She wanted to go to Marshall but is afraid it will be too crowded. I just hope the rain and clouds don’t get in the way since there is a possibility of thunderstorms predicted.
Knoxville, Cleveland, and Chattanooga will be a mess. Athens is small so I hope not too many show up here. We aren’t prepared to handle it but our local law enforcement officials are warning everybody to be careful.
Spring City, Ten Mile, Rockwood and the little towns on that side of the river might be OK. Dayton might be busy.
I live a few miles east of Columbia, and less than 2 miles from I-70. Predictions are for 400k-500k visitors in the immediate area for eclipse viewing.
IF that many people show up it is going to be a gigantic CF here. I-70 will be a parking lot. US63 will be a parking lot. You will not be able to purchase anything that you need because, if you manage to get to the store, they will be sold out. This town can barely handle the traffic that a Mizzou home football game brings. I can imagine what it will be like if the predictions of visitor numbers come true, and it ain’t going to be pretty.
I will be stocked up on liquor, guns and ammo, and not leaving my property on eclipse day.
TripAdvisor.com is showing a handful of hotels in town with rooms available next weekend so you might get lucky if you don’t fiddle around getting something booked.
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.
I went to Riverview Gardens when it was safe to walk in that area.
Meramac Spring Park (not the State Park) in St. James is I think one of the most beautiful places in Missouri.
Those are the same projections for almost any region on the totality path. Article last week listing all the problems expected in small towns in Oregon. They are warning pregnant women who are due around then to plan for full hospitals and traffic jams. Basic things like food, water, and sanitation are expected to be in short supply.
Perryville, Ste Genevieve, and Cape Girardeau are good bets if you want to be along the river.
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