“We had 31 people book in the span of 24 hours,” said a hotel manager in far Northern California as the eclipse neared. “That’s not normal for us.”
A remote county in the northeast corner of California — with such a small population that it had recorded zero cases of COVID-19 by July of 2020 — is bracing for a rare tourism explosion due to the annular solar eclipse. Modoc County is expected to see its community swell on the morning of Oct. 14 because it lies on the path of the upcoming cosmic ballet.
Hunters are out in the forest too.” All year, hotel rooms have been snatched up across the county. The Fort Bidwell Hotel, located some 50 miles northeast of Alturas, hasn’t had an open reservation in months. “We have been booked up since January,” Krystal Whittaker, the hotel’s assistant manager, told SFGATE. At the Super 8 on Main Street in Alturas, the general manager said that demand for rooms started unexpectedly a few months ago.
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