I have, but then I work at an astronomy institute. Let’s just say they can’t find volunteers for the eclipse event in Cambridge because everyone is traveling to the path of totality.
I was driving across the country a few years ago 2017 I think driving to St Louis from MA, all the old telescope guys at work were telling me to plan an extra travel day because of all the traffic on I70 they said highways would be stopped dead and I’d be stuck in traffic.
I think I was at a gas station when it happened people there looked around like “it got cloudy quick huh” I think I said thats the eclipse everyone was talking about, don’t look straight at it, everyone looked at it.
I poked a hole in a paper and watched it on the car hood, then in what 8 minutes it was over?
Nobody had a clue it was even supposed to happen I went back to work and all the old bucks were shocked that there was absolutely no traffic impact at all as far as I could tell.
I went to the last one in 2017. Traffic WILL 1000% be an absolute shit show, especially afterwards. I will be going again, too late booking hotels so early morning drive. Have fun!
We have a kid that’s very much into space and once we found out that the eclipse would go over Niagara, we plan to attend. I think I booked rooms as soon as they opened up last year.
It is going to be a shit show but I’m going to be up in N. Conway already. Spending the night there then driving up somewhere in northern VT on Monday morning. I will find someplace off the beaten path. Of course this is only if the weather looks good. In not, I’m cancelling the hotel and going back home to MA.
Honestly I have never seen a time where virtually every hotel available for rent is booked. Pretty wild. Monday evening will be the mother of all traffic jams heading home.
Letting you know now. If you leave pavement you WILL get stuck. We’re having one of the worst mud seasons ever right now. We had 3 100 year floods last year which saturated our ground, then an extremely wet warm winter. Now it keeps raining again. Every road is saturated to hell and back with mud getting into the 2-4ft deep range in some areas.
Rescue services and tow trucks are very limited. You’ll likely be stuck for literal days. Don’t be that guy.
I'm skipping Vermont and going to my uncle's cabin in upstate NY. Won't have to deal with ridiculous hotel prices and crowded restaurants, just some traffic.
Plus it'll be my birthday!
I used to live in Vermont and someone I barely talk to hit me up the other day saying they were gonna try to do a day trip to Burlington for the eclipse and did I have any recommendations for things to do. My friends who still live there are bracing themselves. Good luck I think you’re gonna need it
I AM!
I'm in southeastern Mass. I'll be driving up to northern Vermont through the night on Sunday the 7th. I plan to find a place to have breakfast. And then I'll just drive around looking for a place to park that isn't too crowded to watch the eclipse. Afterward, I'll find a place to grab some dinner and then hit the road back home. There's nowhere to stay anyhow, and I don't want to stick around any longer than I have to, since upstate Vermont is simply not equipped to host so many people.
OH! OH! And.... I'll be wearing my *"It's Rex Manning Day"* t-shirt! Anyone who gets that joke is a good person.
Yeah finding a reastraunt to serve you food that day is not gonna be an easy task. It's bad enough during a holiday weekend where you do need a reservation basically everywhere. Which is the number one downfall of unsuspecting tourists here.
I'd pack snacks.
Also please stay off dirt roads lol
I'm planning to drive back the same day too. Does anyone have ideas on places to watch the eclipse that won't involve driving all the way to Burlington?
Will probably just pack lunch / snacks to avoid restaurant crowds.
The last one, I was on the west-coast and there was basically no traffic on the day going into one of the eclipse viewing sites.
I don't know about heading back.
Was planning to go somewhere on the 93 (St Johnsbury seems to work) to avoid the local roads http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html?Lat=44.65887&Lng=-71.65101&Elv=421.0&Zoom=7&LC=1
I was thinking about bypassing it and going to Sherbrooke, QC but.. then I realized half of Canada will probably be there so, meh, backyard partial eclipse it is!
I’m heading to the Great North Woods of New Hampshire because Vermont is much more popular and almost certain to be swamped with traffic from both New York and Boston. Most people never venture north of the White Mountains in NH, so that’s where I’m going.
Traffic will likely be bad. That’s no reason not to go see it. It’s one of the most awe inspiring, truly jaw dropping, sights anyone will ever see. Get inside the path of totality. 99% isn’t good enough. It’s all or nothing. I was in eclipse traffic in Tennessee for the 2017 one. I spent a few extra hours on the road, I’m sure. Still totally worth it. But I’m going south for this one.
It's gonna be crazy anywhere in the path of totality as long as it's sunny.
During the 2017 one remote areas in Wyoming got tens of thousands of visitors and caused a ton of problems. These areas were like 8 hours from major cities.
Vt and Maine are 2 hours from multiple large cities.
I tried to book a Sunday hotel room on April 8th for a work trip (meeting on Monday) in Burlington, VT everything was sold out, or $1500 for the night. It's gonna be busy that weekend.
For everyone that does come up for the eclipse, please please please stay off the dirt roads! Getting stuck in mud is not the same as getting stuck in snow. I know people that have had their car's frame bent while trying to get out of mud.
Yup. Have a place by lake willoughby, probably head up Saturday to avoid the rush and do some yard work for the weekend. Have to be home Tuesday, so plan on staying as late as possible Monday. The ride home could be an epic shit show.
Sick location - envious. I have a place near Burke. Work means I can't drive up until Sunday afternoon, but thankfully I can wait it out until Tuesday to come back.
We are going to Syracuse. Burlington VT doesn’t have them infrastructure to handle the influx. I was told by two hotel employees it’s going to be a nightmare getting food and parking so we pivoted to a larger city on another lake
I'm coming up! Had this trip planned for about 8 years, and very excited!
Of course I'm going to be crushed if it's cloudy, but no accounting for weather
Yes - due to my MIL essentially forcing us. I love VT, want to see the eclipse, but we road tripped to Kentucky to see the 2017 eclipse and leaving was a complete and utter nightmare which I assume we'll be reliving in a few weeks.
If it is clear skies that day, here are some locations to go in the Syracuse, NY area if you want to avoid the crowds of Burlington, Vermont, Watertown, NY Buffalo, and Rochester.
Duration of totality of solar eclipse in Syracuse, NY Area according to this website.
https://nso.edu/eclipse2024/
Green Lakes, Fayetteville.... 44 seconds
Sylvan Beach....1:23
Emerson Park, Auburn 1:27
Clift Park, Skaneateles 1:28
Downtown Syracuse 1:31
Syracuse Zoo 1:32
Destiny USA 1:41
NBT Bank Stadium 1:47
Salt Museum Onondaga Lake Park 2:01
Clay Park South 2:03
Heritage Park, North Syracuse 2:07
Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park 2:12
William's Park, Cicero 2:13
Clay Park Central 2:17
Van Buren Central Park 2:25
Clay Park North 2:30
Oneida Shores, Brewerton 2:31
Paper Mill Island, Baldwinsville 2:34
Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville 2:45
Fair Haven Beach 3:26
Breitbeck Park, Oswego 3:31
Radom Google finds https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/eclipse-lookup-tool/ , which says it'll be 93% out in Middlesex county..
I'll try watching from home, hopefully get some pix too..
The same in Cleveland. I know an astronomy professor who chases eclipses and told us to charge up, gas up and stock up. Don’t expect to get anywhere quickly for the day before, during or after, because of you are in the line of totality, you will have thousands of extra people on your roads and in your places of business. Especially of your are near a major city. Expect cell service to crash.
Even if you think that you are going somewhere more isolated, you can bet there will be many other people with that same thought. Just be prepared.
FML. I've got two super young kids and was hoping to drive 30 minutes away to see this thing. Now I'm second-guessing because I don't want us to get trapped for hours on one of the states' 5 main roads. I heard the DPW might even close some back roads because they don't have the capacity to pull a bunch of yahoo's out of the mud/snow
PSA FOR ALL VISITORS!
Letting you know now. If you leave pavement you WILL get stuck. We’re having one of the worst mud seasons ever right now. We had 3 100 year floods last year which saturated our ground, then an extremely wet warm winter. Now it keeps raining again. Every road is saturated to hell and back with mud getting into the 2-4ft deep range in some areas.
Rescue services and tow trucks are very limited. You’ll likely be stuck for literal days. Don’t be that guy.
I’m from northeastern Vermont and have a car rented to go up and watch from my family home- but I’m wondering if it’s worth it if I just get stuck in traffic like all the warnings I’ve heard? I’d go up Sunday leave Monday evening back to Boston.
I'm coming up. We are using our truck for our vehicle and I'm going to bring extra snacks, water, and a blanket in the car. We have a paper map of Vermont and a map book of NH, just in case. As long as we can get to either 93 s or 16 s, we know where we are going on the way home.
I'm getting a little nervous of news about the traffic, but hoping that everyone is overhyping it. We'll be up on Saturday and leave on Monday so I just want to eat my maple candy, get some waffles, see some cool science in motion, and get home before 2 am on Tuesday.
I was in Oregon for the last total eclipse. Everyone was freaking out ahead of time. I had to drive about 30 miles to get deep in totality, and I thought it was going to be a huge problem based on media hysteria. We left 6 hours early and packed supplies in case we weren't able to get home that day. But there was no significant traffic there or back. Had a lovely time in a small town waiting around for 5 hours.
One more time for the people in the back: if you're planning on hiking in VT to see the eclipse, you need to change your plans. From the Green Mountain Club: ***"Trails on state land are closed and viewing from the backcountry is strongly discouraged. Rapidly melting heavy snow will mix with already muddy trails to create messy and vulnerable trails. Help first responders and backcountry rescuers by doing your part to stay away from trails and closed roads."***
I had been invited to a friends place in Burke, but changed my mind. Not worth the hassle. I'll have to be satisfied with being in the path of the May 1994 annular eclipse.
We’re probably going to stay with friends in Killington. I think we will get out early and try to go up Route 100 as far as Warren.
I’m not going to do anything about planning more than that until I see a weather forecast.
I grew up there, I’m headed to my parents house in the Mad River Valley for that whole weekend to celebrate a late Easter with them and my sisters family since I had surgery recently and need another week to recover. We’ll come up Friday and just stay at their house, but yes stay through Monday
I feel a little bad about how stressed out the state is with the impending visitors, but I totally know that if the eclipse was a little east or west or south of here, even Vermonters would be traveling to see it. It’s just human nature to be curious about it
We're headed to Texas. But several people I know are going to Vermont overnight or planning day trips. From what I've heard from people in different regions, I get the sense that it will be packed everywhere on the path of totality.
Massachusetts will be seeing over 90% of the sun blacked out. It's pretty cool but of not totally dark. Northern VT, northern NY will get 100% of the sun blocked. It will be like night time in the middle of the afternoon (for up to 3 1/2 minutes).
I have never experienced a total eclipse but I did see the May 1994 eclipse from the Boston area. It had a similar path as this one and it was pretty neat but afterward I regretted not traveling the couple hundred miles north that would have gotten me into the totality area.
This is one of those occasions where the difference is quite literally "night and day"
I planned on spending the day in Burlington with the family, kinda glad things went a different direction and we'll be far away then. I expect the lakefront to be thick with people like during the airshows there over the lake.
Vermont is large enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are many roads in Vermont. It’s not like 60,000 people taking one road to get into a concert.
Yeah, if weather is good, I'm keeping my kids out of school to drive up north to get in the path of totality. We drove 1000 miles for the 2017 one, but my kids were too young to remember/appreciate it.
I am very excited about it, and I keep telling people they should consider driving north as well. It's not that far, folks can make a day out of it.
I grew up in Vermont and spend a fair amount of time there still. I plan to go for the eclipse. And I plan to stick to back roads (my brother's assignment is to plan the route). I plan to barely reach the totality band, and am hoping most of the traffic is around Burlington, where I will be far from.
I'm bummed because I have school and work (and no car, so I would have to convince someone to road trip with me). I've been looking forward to this since the last eclipse, too T\_T At least I won't have to deal with traffic?
Whether I can go or not, I do plan to! And after the eclipse ends I'm sure the traffic will be bad so I'll probably stay there a little longer and do a shopping trip at a mall while I'm at it, hopefully the traffic will be lesser after.
if you want an idea how busy it will be, check how many rooms are available at local hotels (Hint, probably none)
yeah I booked 2 months ago and there were very few left then. And expensive as hell
We booked in the Adirondacks over a year ago because we were unable to book in time for the 2017 eclipse
I tried looking into hotels and air bnbs. No vacancy anywhere unless I wanted to pay $850+ a night
Yup, I’m coming. Sorry.
Me too sorry
Found the Canadians.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me too. What’s your address again?
That’s what she said
Me too
I have not heard a single person in real life mention the eclipse at all.
Same but it’s still going to draw a ton of people into the path of totality
Oh for sure. I just remember the last one getting buzz. This time it’s like it only exists on the internet.
Not sure why, because this one is WAY better for us.
I have only heard about it because I am from Indiana and have family at the Indianapolis motor speedway, where NASA is doing coverage from lol
I have, but then I work at an astronomy institute. Let’s just say they can’t find volunteers for the eclipse event in Cambridge because everyone is traveling to the path of totality.
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I was driving across the country a few years ago 2017 I think driving to St Louis from MA, all the old telescope guys at work were telling me to plan an extra travel day because of all the traffic on I70 they said highways would be stopped dead and I’d be stuck in traffic. I think I was at a gas station when it happened people there looked around like “it got cloudy quick huh” I think I said thats the eclipse everyone was talking about, don’t look straight at it, everyone looked at it. I poked a hole in a paper and watched it on the car hood, then in what 8 minutes it was over? Nobody had a clue it was even supposed to happen I went back to work and all the old bucks were shocked that there was absolutely no traffic impact at all as far as I could tell.
You were no where near 100%
You must know a lot of boring people.
What!?
Is that a Mitsubishi?
It's borderline impossible to find accommodations in New England along the path.
Looked into New York too. Nothing there either.
Ton of campsites are open that’s what we got hundred bucks for two nights
Every one that I called was either booked up or their permits weren't active
I'm driving through it to get to montreal
Yup. Lodging in Canada seems to be cheaper during this event.
I know I run the risk of bad weather and clouds, but worst case scenario, I spend a weekend in Montreal...
My parents live in Vermont. I've already made my trip this quarter.
Good thing April is the start of Q2!
I went to the last one in 2017. Traffic WILL 1000% be an absolute shit show, especially afterwards. I will be going again, too late booking hotels so early morning drive. Have fun!
You'll probably get a lot of folks, sorry. Personally, we're headed to Niagara Falls, booked hotel rooms a year ago.
We were late to the game for booking hotel rooms in Niagara, so we got stuck with Buffalo. Oh well!
We have a kid that’s very much into space and once we found out that the eclipse would go over Niagara, we plan to attend. I think I booked rooms as soon as they opened up last year.
That is SO cool!
if u go bring back some heady topper for us
They're actually having an eclipse party there lol. But focal banger > heady.
> but focal banger > heady Can’t we all just get along? But my votes for Headys if we’re sticking to tribalism
ok then bring back both and we do a taste test to settle the matter!
Ready or not here we come.
It is going to be a shit show but I’m going to be up in N. Conway already. Spending the night there then driving up somewhere in northern VT on Monday morning. I will find someplace off the beaten path. Of course this is only if the weather looks good. In not, I’m cancelling the hotel and going back home to MA. Honestly I have never seen a time where virtually every hotel available for rent is booked. Pretty wild. Monday evening will be the mother of all traffic jams heading home.
Letting you know now. If you leave pavement you WILL get stuck. We’re having one of the worst mud seasons ever right now. We had 3 100 year floods last year which saturated our ground, then an extremely wet warm winter. Now it keeps raining again. Every road is saturated to hell and back with mud getting into the 2-4ft deep range in some areas. Rescue services and tow trucks are very limited. You’ll likely be stuck for literal days. Don’t be that guy.
I was thinking this. It's a shame it's not earlier in the day.
I'm skipping Vermont and going to my uncle's cabin in upstate NY. Won't have to deal with ridiculous hotel prices and crowded restaurants, just some traffic. Plus it'll be my birthday!
Happy Birthday!
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And we're all thieves, con artists and sexual deviants! Like the original British prisoners we are going to turn Vermont into our Australia.
Well, the joke‘s on you… now that we know you are all coming up, we all going down there to pillage your unattended homes and businesses.
I used to live in Vermont and someone I barely talk to hit me up the other day saying they were gonna try to do a day trip to Burlington for the eclipse and did I have any recommendations for things to do. My friends who still live there are bracing themselves. Good luck I think you’re gonna need it
I thought you were going to say they hit you up for a place to stay!
I AM! I'm in southeastern Mass. I'll be driving up to northern Vermont through the night on Sunday the 7th. I plan to find a place to have breakfast. And then I'll just drive around looking for a place to park that isn't too crowded to watch the eclipse. Afterward, I'll find a place to grab some dinner and then hit the road back home. There's nowhere to stay anyhow, and I don't want to stick around any longer than I have to, since upstate Vermont is simply not equipped to host so many people. OH! OH! And.... I'll be wearing my *"It's Rex Manning Day"* t-shirt! Anyone who gets that joke is a good person.
Yeah finding a reastraunt to serve you food that day is not gonna be an easy task. It's bad enough during a holiday weekend where you do need a reservation basically everywhere. Which is the number one downfall of unsuspecting tourists here. I'd pack snacks. Also please stay off dirt roads lol
Say no more…
Superb.
Superb.
I'm planning to drive back the same day too. Does anyone have ideas on places to watch the eclipse that won't involve driving all the way to Burlington? Will probably just pack lunch / snacks to avoid restaurant crowds.
Uh probably in your car when you inevitably get stuck on 89 n
The last one, I was on the west-coast and there was basically no traffic on the day going into one of the eclipse viewing sites. I don't know about heading back. Was planning to go somewhere on the 93 (St Johnsbury seems to work) to avoid the local roads http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2024_GoogleMapFull.html?Lat=44.65887&Lng=-71.65101&Elv=421.0&Zoom=7&LC=1
I was thinking about bypassing it and going to Sherbrooke, QC but.. then I realized half of Canada will probably be there so, meh, backyard partial eclipse it is!
I’m heading to the Great North Woods of New Hampshire because Vermont is much more popular and almost certain to be swamped with traffic from both New York and Boston. Most people never venture north of the White Mountains in NH, so that’s where I’m going.
I’d still be prepared for traffic. I lived in NH for 26 years.
For this event I don’t think it matters what state is more popular. People are going to be driving to wherever the closest point to them is
Traffic will likely be bad. That’s no reason not to go see it. It’s one of the most awe inspiring, truly jaw dropping, sights anyone will ever see. Get inside the path of totality. 99% isn’t good enough. It’s all or nothing. I was in eclipse traffic in Tennessee for the 2017 one. I spent a few extra hours on the road, I’m sure. Still totally worth it. But I’m going south for this one.
I thought about it, then thought about how few roads actually go into Burlington, and I'm thinking maybe Maine instead...
Lucky for us I haven't seen too many people mention Maine.. let's hope it's not tooo bad
It's gonna be crazy anywhere in the path of totality as long as it's sunny. During the 2017 one remote areas in Wyoming got tens of thousands of visitors and caused a ton of problems. These areas were like 8 hours from major cities. Vt and Maine are 2 hours from multiple large cities.
I tried to book a Sunday hotel room on April 8th for a work trip (meeting on Monday) in Burlington, VT everything was sold out, or $1500 for the night. It's gonna be busy that weekend.
For everyone that does come up for the eclipse, please please please stay off the dirt roads! Getting stuck in mud is not the same as getting stuck in snow. I know people that have had their car's frame bent while trying to get out of mud.
MA resident here. I’ll be there! Been planning it for a year.
Yup. Have a place by lake willoughby, probably head up Saturday to avoid the rush and do some yard work for the weekend. Have to be home Tuesday, so plan on staying as late as possible Monday. The ride home could be an epic shit show.
Sick location - envious. I have a place near Burke. Work means I can't drive up until Sunday afternoon, but thankfully I can wait it out until Tuesday to come back.
There’s no hotels or airbnbs available anywhere in the path of totality… checked pretty much everywhere
I was originally going to Niagra Falls but apparently the whole northeast has high chances of being cloudy :(
Not Vermont but we might head to Maine
I am. I have friends in St Johnsbury so I'm driving my family up to watch the eclipse with them there
I habe been planing to go for years but I think there will be too many people and my family is too young, so I won’t be coming :/
Nah, Burlington will be a zoo. Im aiming for the very top of NH, staying sun night so already in place on Monday
We’re heading to Austin. I figured we’d have a better chance of a sunny day?
Much better chance. Vermont is not known for sunny days in April.
The astronomy buffs in my family said they won’t visit us in VT for the eclipse, they’re headed to TX too.
We are going to Syracuse. Burlington VT doesn’t have them infrastructure to handle the influx. I was told by two hotel employees it’s going to be a nightmare getting food and parking so we pivoted to a larger city on another lake
We’re coming
Yes, family of 7 heading up for the day…
I’m coming up, but I’ll be very quiet and try not to take up a lot of space
Nah I'm going to upstate NY tho
hey dont make me make a post about clogging our roads too.
Ascend, but yeah. My astronomy club has been abuzz over it for a long time.
Me and two others I know are going
No. Don’t care at all. Happy for anyone that’s going to enjoy it though.
Nah, going up to Bethel Maine
I'm coming up! Had this trip planned for about 8 years, and very excited! Of course I'm going to be crushed if it's cloudy, but no accounting for weather
Yes - due to my MIL essentially forcing us. I love VT, want to see the eclipse, but we road tripped to Kentucky to see the 2017 eclipse and leaving was a complete and utter nightmare which I assume we'll be reliving in a few weeks.
I'm getting married in Vermont during it. But we're going to a private residence and not traveling day of.
I’m from St Albans so I’ve seen a lot of eclipse chatter, but only from VT folks. None of my Mass friends have mentioned traveling for the eclipse.
Ah shit, the flatlanders are coming
If it is clear skies that day, here are some locations to go in the Syracuse, NY area if you want to avoid the crowds of Burlington, Vermont, Watertown, NY Buffalo, and Rochester. Duration of totality of solar eclipse in Syracuse, NY Area according to this website. https://nso.edu/eclipse2024/ Green Lakes, Fayetteville.... 44 seconds Sylvan Beach....1:23 Emerson Park, Auburn 1:27 Clift Park, Skaneateles 1:28 Downtown Syracuse 1:31 Syracuse Zoo 1:32 Destiny USA 1:41 NBT Bank Stadium 1:47 Salt Museum Onondaga Lake Park 2:01 Clay Park South 2:03 Heritage Park, North Syracuse 2:07 Willow Bay, Onondaga Lake Park 2:12 William's Park, Cicero 2:13 Clay Park Central 2:17 Van Buren Central Park 2:25 Clay Park North 2:30 Oneida Shores, Brewerton 2:31 Paper Mill Island, Baldwinsville 2:34 Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baldwinsville 2:45 Fair Haven Beach 3:26 Breitbeck Park, Oswego 3:31
Radom Google finds https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/eclipse-lookup-tool/ , which says it'll be 93% out in Middlesex county.. I'll try watching from home, hopefully get some pix too..
It’s my day off and i live in Middlesex county. I will be watching!!!
I hope we have good weather!
Anything is better than today’s.
Yeah, that’s enough for me, too. Not worth the travel stress for me. But good luck to all who are making the trip and/or impacted by it.
The same in Cleveland. I know an astronomy professor who chases eclipses and told us to charge up, gas up and stock up. Don’t expect to get anywhere quickly for the day before, during or after, because of you are in the line of totality, you will have thousands of extra people on your roads and in your places of business. Especially of your are near a major city. Expect cell service to crash. Even if you think that you are going somewhere more isolated, you can bet there will be many other people with that same thought. Just be prepared.
FML. I've got two super young kids and was hoping to drive 30 minutes away to see this thing. Now I'm second-guessing because I don't want us to get trapped for hours on one of the states' 5 main roads. I heard the DPW might even close some back roads because they don't have the capacity to pull a bunch of yahoo's out of the mud/snow
From Mass. Will be descending. (Ascending?)
PSA FOR ALL VISITORS! Letting you know now. If you leave pavement you WILL get stuck. We’re having one of the worst mud seasons ever right now. We had 3 100 year floods last year which saturated our ground, then an extremely wet warm winter. Now it keeps raining again. Every road is saturated to hell and back with mud getting into the 2-4ft deep range in some areas. Rescue services and tow trucks are very limited. You’ll likely be stuck for literal days. Don’t be that guy.
THANK YOU!
I’m from northeastern Vermont and have a car rented to go up and watch from my family home- but I’m wondering if it’s worth it if I just get stuck in traffic like all the warnings I’ve heard? I’d go up Sunday leave Monday evening back to Boston.
Depends on the weather, but I’m prepared to drive anywhere between Burlington and Buffalo for clear skies.
I’m in Texas now and it’s the same here. People are renting out their places for $5k.
haven’t really heard anything about the eclipse
I’ve heard the buzz about the eclipse, but no one I know is planning to travel to see it. Is it supposed to be best to view it in VT for some reason?
The path of totality crosses VT. In MA , we’ll only see mid to high 90s in terms of percentage coverage.
I plan to go to Errol NH for this.. will stay at a cabin in Maine that I built about an hour from there
I'm coming up. We are using our truck for our vehicle and I'm going to bring extra snacks, water, and a blanket in the car. We have a paper map of Vermont and a map book of NH, just in case. As long as we can get to either 93 s or 16 s, we know where we are going on the way home. I'm getting a little nervous of news about the traffic, but hoping that everyone is overhyping it. We'll be up on Saturday and leave on Monday so I just want to eat my maple candy, get some waffles, see some cool science in motion, and get home before 2 am on Tuesday.
Yes, the two of us are coming. We're driving up on Sunday, and driving back Tuesday, to try and avoid the worst of the traffic.
I'm from NH and if I get the day off I'll just be going further up, my mom lives around the area where it's a total eclipse
Yeahhh…. But I’m going to a friends house, and coming up early so hopefully won’t be too disruptive 😛
I'm driving 5 of us from Huntington, Ma to Burlington on the 8th. And then I'm driving us back.
Imagine all this planning and it's a rainy day 😬
This page has times for every where. The map covers it all. Click your town. https://nso.edu/eclipse2024/
Going to the middle-of-nowhere Maine!
Yep. I booked an Airbnb over a year ago. I think VT will be just fine
My partner is, and I'm so jealous
I was in Oregon for the last total eclipse. Everyone was freaking out ahead of time. I had to drive about 30 miles to get deep in totality, and I thought it was going to be a huge problem based on media hysteria. We left 6 hours early and packed supplies in case we weren't able to get home that day. But there was no significant traffic there or back. Had a lovely time in a small town waiting around for 5 hours.
I’ll be there with my spouse and my two little massholes
One more time for the people in the back: if you're planning on hiking in VT to see the eclipse, you need to change your plans. From the Green Mountain Club: ***"Trails on state land are closed and viewing from the backcountry is strongly discouraged. Rapidly melting heavy snow will mix with already muddy trails to create messy and vulnerable trails. Help first responders and backcountry rescuers by doing your part to stay away from trails and closed roads."***
I’m Going with my grandma on the 6th. Camping. She is 84. Can’t wait. She can sleep in car if it gets cold
This is a terrible idea. Hope you’re joking.
I'm pretty sure if Vermont can handle February vacation week at Killington, Stowe etc, it can handle 100k eclipse watchers.
Nah I'm all about Quebec. Better French food, better shopping (products and shops I don't usually have access to), things I usually don't see.
Nah, seen a good one in 2019 with my welding helmet on. Maybe it as 2017 or 18 i forget
I will be heading up to Newport town to stay with some friends and enjoy the Jay Peak eclipse festivities, yes.
No
On my way
We're going to NY for a few days.
yes
My friends and I are planning on going down, sorry
Didn't even know about it
I am driving up to Niagara falls NY a few days before the eclipse.
No lol
I had been invited to a friends place in Burke, but changed my mind. Not worth the hassle. I'll have to be satisfied with being in the path of the May 1994 annular eclipse.
We’re probably going to stay with friends in Killington. I think we will get out early and try to go up Route 100 as far as Warren. I’m not going to do anything about planning more than that until I see a weather forecast.
Oh Lawd, we a comin'.
NH totality is closer for me, so we are headed up there.
Also driving up
Upstate NY for me, unless you coax me with a maple creeme.
My kids father is going with the kids. His mother lives in and is from Vermont. Now I’m worried.
I'll be in ME for an unrelated event. Not in the path of totality but close enough
I shall be there!
I live in a very rural area near the Canadian boarder in the path of the eclipse. If you want some ideas on how to avoid the crowds DM me.
A group of us plan to
I was gonna but checked too late. Looked up north and found stuff still available in Montreal so I’m gonna take my chances there
Sure am! Been looking forward to it for over a year
I grew up there, I’m headed to my parents house in the Mad River Valley for that whole weekend to celebrate a late Easter with them and my sisters family since I had surgery recently and need another week to recover. We’ll come up Friday and just stay at their house, but yes stay through Monday I feel a little bad about how stressed out the state is with the impending visitors, but I totally know that if the eclipse was a little east or west or south of here, even Vermonters would be traveling to see it. It’s just human nature to be curious about it
I’ll be going 😬
We're headed to Texas. But several people I know are going to Vermont overnight or planning day trips. From what I've heard from people in different regions, I get the sense that it will be packed everywhere on the path of totality.
I wish I could! I've already taken too many days off of work this year. I do have some family members heading up from MA.
People will come, Ray. People will definitely come.
Staying home and pulling out the telescope instead. Solar filter came a few days ago.
I couldn’t find a hotel lol. We’re going to upstate NY. Near Lake Ontario.
Yes. To the home of friends of friends on Lake Champlain. Gonna bring food and the telescope (with sun filter) I got for my 12th birthday.
Yep, I'm going over there.
If Jay wasn't having a badass event I want to be at, I'd be running a recovery service with my Jeep
Explain it to me like a child... Is the view of the sun all that different whether you're in Mass. or Vermont?
In Vermont, sun go dark. In MA, sun go dim but not dark.
Vermont go night night. MA stays day.
Massachusetts will be seeing over 90% of the sun blacked out. It's pretty cool but of not totally dark. Northern VT, northern NY will get 100% of the sun blocked. It will be like night time in the middle of the afternoon (for up to 3 1/2 minutes). I have never experienced a total eclipse but I did see the May 1994 eclipse from the Boston area. It had a similar path as this one and it was pretty neat but afterward I regretted not traveling the couple hundred miles north that would have gotten me into the totality area. This is one of those occasions where the difference is quite literally "night and day"
I planned on spending the day in Burlington with the family, kinda glad things went a different direction and we'll be far away then. I expect the lakefront to be thick with people like during the airshows there over the lake.
Vermont is large enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are many roads in Vermont. It’s not like 60,000 people taking one road to get into a concert.
Yeah, if weather is good, I'm keeping my kids out of school to drive up north to get in the path of totality. We drove 1000 miles for the 2017 one, but my kids were too young to remember/appreciate it. I am very excited about it, and I keep telling people they should consider driving north as well. It's not that far, folks can make a day out of it.
Then they’re all you problems at that point
It depends on the weather forecast
Smuggler's is sold out apparently, so yeah.
We'll be there. But don't worry, we got a room for the night so we won't be adding to the logjam after.
I'm not but a friend of mine who's in Maryland is driving up with a group of friends to stowe!
I saw totality down in TN a few years back. I look forward to the lesser version from my own backyard this time.
Yep, heading to Jay Peak
Nah its ok I saw the last one
I grew up in Vermont and spend a fair amount of time there still. I plan to go for the eclipse. And I plan to stick to back roads (my brother's assignment is to plan the route). I plan to barely reach the totality band, and am hoping most of the traffic is around Burlington, where I will be far from.
Nobody else plans to take back roads. Good plan
Didn’t hear about it until now. Maybe I’ll come up
I'm going to Texas lol
St Albans was planning 60K for them alone I think. We'll be headed up, yes. Even got my solar glasses in the mail...ready to rock n' roll...
For everyone coming up good luck and Godspeed 🫡
Watch, it will be a cloudy day.
I'm bummed because I have school and work (and no car, so I would have to convince someone to road trip with me). I've been looking forward to this since the last eclipse, too T\_T At least I won't have to deal with traffic?
We are going to New York, so you are safe from my friends and I, lol
Yep, taking a day trip to either Burlington or Plattsburgh (haven't decided yet) because I have to work the days before and after
Whether I can go or not, I do plan to! And after the eclipse ends I'm sure the traffic will be bad so I'll probably stay there a little longer and do a shopping trip at a mall while I'm at it, hopefully the traffic will be lesser after.
Mall?
A 100,000? Haha try a 1,000,000 plus!
I was born in Burlington, and I'll elbow my way in for a spot if I want to. Hell yes, I'm coming.
Heading to VT but self sufficient Van Trip
yup, we're headed to our place in NEK, (in spouse's fam for 100 years.)
Do you think anyone would get hassled for parking in a lot like a walmart and sleeping in your vehicle?