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The next total solar eclipse is less than 5 years away — 14 states where you’ll experience totality in 2024

Shelia Poole
Fiza Pirani
By Shelia Poole and Fiza Pirani

You may want to save this date: April 8, 2024

That's the next time parts of the United States will experience a total solar eclipse.

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OK, so you might think it’s too early to plan, but remember Monday’s “Great American Eclipse?”

Camp sites, hotels and private rentals were booked months in advance. Remember the frantic hunt for those special glasses?

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The Aug. 21, 2017 total solar eclipse stretched from Salem, Ore. to Charleston, S.C.

If you’re fine with a partial view, you may want to consider a long weekend in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. or New York City.

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One person who may not be there is Jane Tomlin.

"I do have to say it was probably one of the most awesome natural experiences I've ever seen," said Tomlin, co-owner of Tomlin BBQ in Rabun Gap, which was packed with tens of thousands of sun gazers. Tomlin's restaurant was closed that day, but she and watched from her yard with friends and family. "Would I travel anywhere else to see it? I doubt it, I'm not much of a crowd person, but it was pretty fantastic."

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But if you’ve caught the eclipse travel bug, here are some of the world’s other upcoming total solar eclipses:

2019: South Pacific, Chile and Argentina

2020: South Pacific, Chile, Argentina and the South Atlantic

2021: Antarctica

2026:Arctic region, Greenland, Iceland and Spain

2027: Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia

2028: Australia and New Zealand

2030: Botswana, South Africa and Australia

More about the next Great American Eclipse at greatamericaneclipse.com.