Passing through the countries of South America, the United States, and the Caribbean, the 2045 Total Solar Eclipse amazing opportunities to view totality in its grandeur in beautiful natural settings! These settings vary from waterfalls to wooded areas in various countries provide 5-6+ minutes of totality. Here we will be focus on 5 of the national parks to view totality for the 2045 total solar eclipse in a place that almost looks like another world.

1. Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park

Located in western Colorado, the park contains 12 of the 48 mile long Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. The national park itself contains the deepest and most dramatic section of the canyon, but the canyon continues upstream into Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. The canyon’s name owes itself to the fact that parts of the gorge only receive 33 minutes of sunlight a day.

	Value
Address	7295 Black Canyon Road, Crawford, Colorado
Timezone	Mountain
Eclipse Duration	2 hours, 27 minutes, 6 seconds
Duration of Totality	4 minutes, 36 seconds
Full Begins	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:33:05 am
Maximum	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:35:23 am
Full Ends	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:37:41 am

2. Redwood National Park

The Redwood National and State Parks are a complex of one national park and three state parks, cooperatively managed and located in the United States along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park and California’s State Parks. This area has a combined 139,000 acres, which features old-growth temperate rainforests. The four parks protect 45 percent of all remaining coast redwood old-growth forests, which has at least 38,982 acres.

	Value
Address	1111 Second Street, Crescent City, CA 95531
Timezone	Pacific
Eclipse Duration	2 hours, 12 minutes, 12 seconds
Duration of Totality	2 minutes and 25 seconds
Full Begins	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:15:42 am
Maximum	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:16:54 am
Full Ends	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:18:07 am

3. Great Sand Dunes National Park

The park conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet in height in Colorado. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932, by President Herbert Hoover with the boundaries protecting 35,528 acres of land. The park now encompasses 107,342 acres, which include the tallest sand dunes in North America. These dunes cover an area of about 30 square miles and are estimated to contain over 1.2 cubic miles of sand.

	Value
Timezone	Mountain Time
Eclipse Duration	2 hours, 29 minutes, 12 seconds
Duration of Totality	3 minutes, 8 seconds
Full Begins	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:37:06 am
Maximum	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:38:40 am
Full Ends	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:40:14 am

4. Arches National Park

Located in Utah near Moab, Arches National Park is bordered by the Colorado River in the southeast. The park is best known as the site of more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches.

	Value
Timezone	Mountain Time
Eclipse Duration	2 hours, 25 minutes, 37 seconds
Duration of Totality	4 minutes
Full Begins	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:30:44 am
Maximum	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:32:44 am
Full Ends	Aug 12, 2045 at 10:34:44 am

5. Great Basin National Park

Located near the Utah-Nevada border, Great Basin National Park can be found in White Pine County, Nevada. Established in 1986, the park derives its name from the Great Basin, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Mountains. The park is notable for its groves of ancient bristlecone pines, the oldest known living non-colonial organisms and some of the darkest night skies in the contiguous United States.

	Value
Timezone	Pacific
Eclipse Duration	2 hours, 21 minutes, 46 seconds
Duration of Totality	1 minute, 3 seconds
Full Begins	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:26:04 am
Maximum	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:26:35 am
Full Ends	Aug 12, 2045 at 9:27:07 am

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