Originally Posted by
YadiMolina
Kerrville, Fredericksburg, and Llano have touristy downtowns and probably some event or fair. Leave early and take a scenic route through the Hill Country. Look into Pedernales Falls and Enchanted Rock state parks, but reserve a day pass at the exact time they go on sale, they'll sell out in minutes.
I drove to Beeville for the annular eclipse in October, lots of people in parking lots and on the side of the road, but no traffic of note coming or going. Not sure how that will extrapolate to a full eclipse.
I’ve not been in that area before ( been along I-35 and east in SA, austin, Dallas). If they are generally single lane each way roads it will be a crawl getting out of there.
I was in grand Teton in 2017. Flight out next morning from SLC. Ivr bern in tetons many times before so I only did one night there ( night before). I came in from idaho falls and they were folks camping all over that road. Just like tailgating where folks sold stays on their land. I knew trying to head out thst way would be horrendous.
therr are generally 4 ways out. West to idaho falls, south to Evanston, a middle route through soda springs, and a longer route to pinedale snd rock springs.
heading to Evanston. It was a crawl on the roads from jackson to 25 miles south ( route split) where one heads to soda springs and one to Evanston. The drive was moving a little faster but it still was this long string of cars. The drive normally would be about 5.5 hrs. It took close to 8 hrs.
heading in/out of there for eclipse is going to be bad.
in Tetons I already knew where I’d go for the eclipse. I left my hotel before sunrise.after jackson it was a car Crawl for about 10+ miles where there was a turn off nany would go. There was other crawl points. It took 90 minutes to go 15 miles or so.