If you want to see the ring of fire eclipse in full Saturday morning, you’ll need to drive — three hours west to Elko on I-80, about two and a half hours down I-15.
The Park City Library is giving away special glasses this week till they run out to watch the “annular solar eclipse” as it barrels along a path just to the west and south of Park City between Oregon and South America, crossing the richest concentration of national parks in the United States. The library website also serves as its own path to a website (http://scigames.org/eclipse/) full of charts and times.
The Great American Eclipse site (https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/utah-2023-eclipse) goes into even more detail for this and other eclipses to come, none so close as Saturday morning.
According to the site, the annular solar eclipse begins in Utah at 10:24 a.m. “with the speed of the moon’s shadow being 3,897 mph. The annular solar eclipse leaves Utah at 10:35 a.m., and the moon’s shadow diminishes to 2,643 mph. The maximum duration of annularity in Utah is 4 minutes and 40 seconds.”
Even if you’ve overslept or found rooms and campgrounds long booked out, according the paths traced in the website, you’ll still have 80% or so of the eclipse visible. But watch those eyes.