In Monday’s predawn hours, traffic on Interstate 15 already approached levels usually not seen until height of the morning commute as drivers headed north for a prime view of the solar eclipse.
The best view, of course, was some 220 miles north of Salt Lake City where the rare, cosmic event’s path of totality was to track through southeastern Utah in the Twin Falls to Idaho Falls areas. There, for 2 minutes 40 seconds, the moon will completely obscure the sun before continuing on to points east.
The U.S. landfall for eclipse’s totality path was set for 11:16 a.