2024 Eclipse Celebration

The challenge of becoming the premiere camping host for the 2024 eclipse is finding the balance between reasonable pricing and available accommodations. Rather than offer a lower price, attract many people and offer few amenities, we are opting to charge a little more and offer more ways for enthusiasts to celebrate one of the sky’s most spectacular shows.

The City of Eagle Pass has set aside a massive budget to welcome eclipse viewers. Officials authorized the construction of at least three new hotels, is fencing off a festival location near the river, contracting private security to keep traffic structured and peaceful and booking live entertainment for a three day city-wide event.

The Turtle Ranch is focused on the MSCs— the Moon Shadow Chasers. MSCs are not casual viewers of an interesting stellar event. They are people who have caught a fever, the need to see a great shadow move over the earth as the moon graces the hot spring with it’s path of temporary coolness. They’ve done the research and hope to hear birds go oddly silent or perhaps glimpse the Mexican freetail bats fly in the early afternoon.

Partial eclipse begins at 12:33 pm CDT, total eclipse begins at 1:51 pm CDT. Duration is 4 minutes, 8 seconds. Partial eclipse begins at 1:43 pm EDT, total eclipse begins at 2:59 pm EDT. Duration is 3 minutes, 47 seconds.