AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – One local county is asking residents to ‘stay home’ during the total solar eclipse on April 8.
Summit County officials are concerned that visitors could create gridlock in Northeast Ohio.
Akron is expected to be one of the top areas of travel that day and businesses there already have events scheduled to celebrate it.
The Summit County Fairgrounds is busy preparing for the day of the event.
“We’ll have car spaces people can buy, lots of green area so they can bring their chairs,” said fair manager Cathy Cunningham.
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The fairgrounds will open early and there’s activities planned all day.
“We are also offering camping spots, they can come camp starting Friday, if they want to camp and visit other places in Akron,” said Cunningham.
Some of these include the Akron Zoo’s Total Eclipse of the Zoo event and the Akron Library’s viewing party.
Summit County is expecting tens of thousands of visitors for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.