Your guide to eclipse events around Ohio

Great Parks hosts viewing event for total eclipse of sun By Peter Osborne Great Parks will offer special viewing sites for the 2024 total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, including Miami Whitewater Forest in northwest Hamilton County, the only Great Park that will be in the path of totality, or total blockage of the sun by the moon. Darkness is expected to arrive at the park at 3:08 p.m. “We already know how perfect Great Parks is for enjoying great scenes in nature, so what a perfect setting for us to all come together and experience one of nature’s rarest phenomena,” said Jordan Hoffman, a Great Parks interpreter. “Some places may experience totality only once every several hundred years, so we are thrilled that the path of darkness allows us to host eclipse watchers this year, and in the largest park in the county, Miami Whitewater Forest.” Great Parks will also welcome eclipse-spotters to two satellite locations – Parky’s Farm and Sharon Woods. Although the satellite locations will not be in the path of totality, they should still experience over 95 percent blockage of the sun by the moon. Eclipse enthusiasts are encouraged to choose their spot with plenty...