THE GREAT GEAUGA TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSEMonday, April 8, 2024 • 11 AM to 4:30 PMHosted by the Geauga County Park Districtat the Geauga County Fairgrounds
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We are so excited to be in the path of totality! If you’re excited, too, please mark your calendars for this large-scale viewing experience to be hosted by Geauga Park District at the county fairgrounds. Three hours of pre-eclipse activities will last from 11 AM to 2 PM, followed by viewing of the eclipse with provided eclipse glasses for safety (while supplies last — then we share), noting that the most exciting viewing will arrive at 3:15 PM when we’ll achieve three minutes 27 seconds of total darkness in the middle of the day!
Event features will include a pop-up Nature store featuring eclipse merchandise, multiple viewing stations with a variety of equipment such as sun-projecting telescopes, ongoing citizen science projects, multiple photo ops and a few extra-unique activities. Food trucks will also be onsite…bring picnic or lawn chairs and make a day of it! Bleacher seating will also be available.
Event features will include a pop-up Nature store featuring eclipse merchandise, multiple viewing stations with a variety of equipment such as sun-projecting telescopes, ongoing citizen science projects, multiple photo ops and a few extra-unique activities. Food trucks will also be onsite…bring picnic or lawn chairs and make a day of it! Bleacher seating will also be available.
Within a mile walk of the fairgrounds, visitors can also find Burton Public Library, Burton Log Cabin, Century Village (all with public restrooms), as well as a variety of Burton Square restaurants and shops. Looking back, three of the last four April 8s would have been perfect weather for viewing such an event…just sayin’.
Schedule of Events
Whatever the weather, it will be an awesome day in Northeast Ohio. We look forward to seeing you!
10:30 AM: PARKING LOTS OPEN
While supplies last, get your free eclipse glasses at any of the three entry gates! Hands will be stamped for those who receive them.
11:00 AM: PRE-ECLIPSE ACTIVITIES BEGIN
Indoor crafts & activities until 2 PM:
3:15 PM: TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE (3 minutes 27 seconds of darkness!)
4:30 PM: PARTIAL ECLIPSE ENDS
While supplies last, get your free eclipse glasses at any of the three entry gates! Hands will be stamped for those who receive them.
11:00 AM: PRE-ECLIPSE ACTIVITIES BEGIN
Indoor crafts & activities until 2 PM:
- Eclipse model craft station
- Eclipse projector craft station
- Sun viewer mask craft
- Paper sun/moon craft
- NASA TV viewing station, showing eclipse moving across the United States
- Pop-up eclipse Nature store
- Photo booth
- Chickens provided by Geauga County 4-H families…will they go to roost when it gets dark? What’s your theory? See this citizen science project in action!
- Solar snapshot station
- Shadow bands
- Moon orbit model
- Temperature recordings, locally & globally
- Tactile eclipse materials
- Spider & Nature table
- Eclipse history sign walk around the track
- Photo scavenger hunt
- Announcer
- Countdown clock
- Sun-projecting telescopes
- User-steered telescopes
- Lens activity station
- Mirror projector
- Snapshot telescope
- Binocular station
- Welder’s helmet
3:15 PM: TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE (3 minutes 27 seconds of darkness!)
4:30 PM: PARTIAL ECLIPSE ENDS
Directions:
Geauga County Fairgrounds
Located at 14373 N. Cheshire St., Burton, Ohio 44021
Located at 14373 N. Cheshire St., Burton, Ohio 44021