Total Eclipse 2017 In Tennessee And Kentucky: Take A Look At A Lake

NASHVILLE, TN — The total solar eclipse is a month away and the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced watch parties at a number of lakes across Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, some of the top regions nationwide for observing the sun's disappearance.

All of the designated sites have at least one minute of totality and all but two have totality of two minutes or longer, including a few over two-and-a-half-minutes, some of the longest periods of totality anywhere. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

The sites on the Corps' lakes with times of totality are:

Lake Barkley

• Tailwater Right Bank Day Use Area – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 35 seconds. 8439 U.S. Highway 62 West, Kuttawa, KY 42055

Cheatham Lake

• Right Bank Day Use Area – Duration of Totality: 1 minute 51 seconds. 1798 Cheatham Dam Road, Ashland City, TN 37015

Old Hickory Lake

• Laguardo Recreation Area – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 35 seconds. 7609 Highway 109 North, Lebanon, TN 37087
• Rockland Recreation Area – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 31 seconds. 5 Power Plant Road, Hendersonville, TN 37075

J. Percy Priest Lake

• Stones River Greenway – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 15 seconds. 3778 Bell Road, Hermitage, TN 37076

Cordell Hull Lake

• Defeated Creek Day Use Area – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 35 seconds. 140 Marina Lane, Carthage, TN 37030
• Donaldson Park (also near Dale Hollow Lake) – Duration of Totality: 1 minute 1 seconds. 1110 Jackson Street, Celina, TN 38551

Center Hill Lake

Center Hill Dam – Duration of Totality: 2 minutes 35 seconds. 270 Lancaster Road, Lancaster, TN 38569

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