HOT SPRINGS — Hot Springs National Park will be one of only two national parks in the United States in the “path of totality” for the April 2024 total eclipse of the sun, Visit Hot Springs said Friday.
The only other national park in the path of totality is Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, VHS Director of Marketing Bill Solleder said in a news release.
“There are 17 other ‘sites’ like historical sites and monuments under the supervision of the National Park Service that will be in the path, but Hot Springs and Cuyahoga Valley are the only full-fledged national parks in the path. Hot Springs is dead center in the path of totality, which is the narrow strip of the country in which the sun will be totally dark,” Solleder said.
“That’s pretty cool,” he said.
“What better place to view this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon than a city that has a national park, mountains, hundreds of…
