INDIANAPOLIS — A once in a lifetime experience is coming to the Circle City.
On April 8, Indianapolis will be in the center of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse.
For 3 minutes and 46 seconds, Indy will experience darkness as the moon passes between the Sun and Earth.
Over 100,000 visitors are anticipated to come to the city for the celestial event.
“We’re treating it like our astronomical Super Bowl,” Morgan Snyder with Visit Indy said. “This is a big economic boom for Indianapolis and what we’re excited about is we see sports enthusiasts come in for a lot of our large scale sporting events and expose them to Indianapolis. This might be a new demographic of visitors to this city.”
Indy is no stranger to large-scale events.
The NBA All-Star game, Olympic Swim Trials and Taylor Swift Eras Tour are all also on the docket this year.
Snyder says places to stay are booking up for the beginning of April.
“Our hotels have seen a big push in reservations. We know our Airbnbs, in fact, Airbnb came out and said we’re the number one trending city for searches over the total solar eclipse time,” Snyder said.