Traveling to view the Eclipse ?

accsys wrote:

gbopp wrote:

wildtoad wrote:
Nope. Just looking up from my front yard. I live along the line in SC.

Are you hearing from long lost relatives/friends who will just happen to be in your area around the 23rd of August and would like to stop for a visit :@

I suspect they will be two days late if they show up the 23rd!! ;)

You are correct, it's the 21st.. I was thinking the 23rd because that is when our school starts. We can't realistically make it back in time if we go to the bullseye of the eclipse. :S

We own a vacation rental in a resort right in the path of totality on the Oregon coast and made sure we had it reserved about a year ago. DW is now starting to fear the chaos and crowd. We are planning to get there Saturday and head back Tuesday but it sounds like that still may be traffic jams. May end up just watching from home near Portland.

TNGW1500SE wrote:

down home wrote:
........However , Tn state Parks are still first come first serve..........

Not true. I currently have reservations at a TN state Park. I don't know about all of them but all the ones I've camped at offer reservations. There are some sites that are first come first serve but you can make reservations at TN state parks. I'm not "calling you out", I just didn't want misleading information to be taken as fact.

https://tnstateparks.itinio.com/?_ga=2.50885356.499478824.1502024352-181543769.1502024352

Things change. Thanks

Arrive early, stay where you are, and be safe.

Exactly. I think the guy above who plans to be there "2 hours ahead of time" is going to be in for a rude awakening.
Estimates are for up to a million people coming into Oregon for the eclipse.
The little town of Madras, Oregon, population 7,000, estimates 40,000 people will be there.

Everything, of course, is subject to weather conditions, and here, smoke dispersal by then.

I heard that the Oregon State Police are stopping anyone with out of state plates at the border. Just kidding. Arrive early, stay where you are, and be safe.

Anyone staying near Winchester Bay?

supercub wrote:
Just curious if anyone is travelling to view the eclipse in a couple of weeks? I'm thinking of heading up near Boise. I need to go up that way to pick something up in the next month or so, so thought I'd make the trip around that date so I can view a total Eclipse, a once in a life time event.

If you don't already have a reservation...good luck in getting one..I happen to have a farmer friend up near Weiser where we can park in his yard...but RV spaces were going for anywhere from $100-$200 per nite and two or three night minimum...

old guy wrote:

Y-Guy wrote:
We scored a site that somebody cancelled out on the Oregon Coast at one of our favorite beach front RV Parks. Regular price, didn't try to jack up the price at all. I'm a tad nervous about the traffic, but we're heading out very early the Friday before and back later the following week. All I need is one fill up everything else we will have with us. No plans to stop and eat, we'll kick back and watch the eclipse from the campground.

a friend of ours got charged in the hundred of dollars for a motel room in John day Oregon. she said she is going to stay home. in Oregon it is against the law to price gouge like that and if you get caught you get fined and have to pay dearly

One hundred dollars a day won't get you a budget hotel in most places. The Best Western in Somers (Kalispell, Montana) was $369.00 a night when I checked for a room last week. And that wasn't for any special event or special day, just the daily rate.
Price gouging generally refers to extreme pricing during an emergency. All the price gouging laws I saw in a quick research mention the need for an emergency to trigger such laws. And the eclipse surely doesn't rise to that level.
Prices skyrocket for all major entertainment events. There are no discounted rates for the Superbowl, New Year's Eve in NYC, The LA Olympics in 2028 etc, and the Eclipse is no exception. Can't blame the merchants and Innkeepers, it's how they make their living, charging what the market will bear.

down home wrote:
........However , Tn state Parks are still first come first serve..........

Not true. I currently have reservations at a TN state Park. I don't know about all of them but all the ones I've camped at offer reservations. There are some sites that are first come first serve but you can make reservations at TN state parks. I'm not "calling you out", I just didn't want misleading information to be taken as fact.

https://tnstateparks.itinio.com/?_ga=2.50885356.499478824.1502024352-181543769.1502024352

One other thing to worry about is the smoke from the fires. It blocked the sun out in parts of ID and Montana yesterday. I see smoke here in Yellowstone too but not as bad but a new fire was starting in deer lodge so that will travel here too.

Y-Guy wrote:
We scored a site that somebody cancelled out on the Oregon Coast at one of our favorite beach front RV Parks. Regular price, didn't try to jack up the price at all. I'm a tad nervous about the traffic, but we're heading out very early the Friday before and back later the following week. All I need is one fill up everything else we will have with us. No plans to stop and eat, we'll kick back and watch the eclipse from the campground.

a friend of ours got charged in the hundred of dollars for a motel room in John day Oregon. she said she is going to stay home. in Oregon it is against the law to price gouge like that and if you get caught you get fined and have to pay dearly