Other travelers are turning to Airbnb, where more than 31,000 people have booked for the night of Aug. Louis and many of its suburbs, most of which will have nearly the same or just as great a perspective. But plenty of rooms are still available just two hours away in St. For instance, in Jefferson City, Missouri, which falls in the center of the eclipse path, all hotels are booked, according to Travelocity and other travel-based websites. Tourist groups from Japan, Germany and other nations competed along with Americans for accommodations long ago.įor people hoping to travel to the smaller cities where hotel rooms are sold out, tourism experts recommend that people literally widen their perspective. We understand the solar system well enough that we can predict this kind of event decades, even centuries, in advance,” Fraknoi said.īut that means hotels and campsites located within or just outside the center of the arc’s path have been sold out for months, particularly in rural areas. “This is the great thing about astronomical alignments in our solar system. The country won't get its next coast-to-coast eclipse until Aug. The next solar eclipse to cross the United States will be on April 8, 2024, but the path of totality will only cut through from Texas to Maine. “The real eclipse aficionados, they already got a hotel or campground spot right in the center of that dark zone years ago,” said Andrew Fraknoi, astronomy chairman at California’s Foothhill College, who has been helping train educators to prepare the public for watching the eclipse for the past several years.
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