2024 Solar Eclipse

Save the date for the next total solar eclipse to cross Paducah, Kentucky on April 8, 2024! Request the Paducah Visitors Guide for detailed destination information.

Book your stay in Paducah using our guide to hotels and unique lodging. Stay up to date with driving and traffic conditions using the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet website.

This exciting celestial phenomenon happens as the moon completely blocks the sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight and the sun's corona shimmers in the darkened sky. Paducah will be in darkness for approximately 1 minute and 52 seconds for the April 2024 eclipse.

Here are the times for the eclipse on April 8, 2024, for Paducah:

  • 12:42 p.m. eclipse begins
  • 2:00 p.m. totality begins
  • 2:02 p.m. totality ends
  • 3:18 p.m. eclipse ends

Nearby Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Carbondale, Illinois, are points with great eclipse duration with totality for a little more than 4 minutes.

Free Local Viewing Options - City Parks

Paducah offers numerous parks so that you can sit back and enjoy the eclipse. Paducah has a 5 mile Greenway Trail that has good open areas between the downtown Convention Center and Noble Park. Popular parks that have open space and available parking are 

Local Events

  • X Marks the Spot Downtown Festival: Sunday, April 7 and Monday, April 8. This two-day street fair will feature live music, science and eclipse art activities for all ages, plenty of shopping, street food and eclipse-themed snacks, science demonstrations and multiple viewing locations and parties.
  • Viewing party on the lawn of the National Quilt Museum
  • Heaven & Earth Psychic Fair, presented by Wildhair Studios' Rock Shop
  • Solar Eclipse Horse Carriage Experience: Historic or Haunted Paducah tours. Reservations required. More information at 270.243.4365.
  • Barkley Regional Airport Eclipse Fly-In: Barkley Regional Airport invites travelers to fly into the airport on personal aircraft. Anyone interested in leaving an aircraft overnight can call Midwest Aviation at (270) 744-8600.
  • Solar Eclipse viewing on the lawn of Reidland United Methodist Church, 5515 Reidland Rd. Complimentary bottled water and popcorn. Free eclipse glasses for the first 200 visitors. Bring lawn chairs if seating is needed.

Quilt image: "Corona II: Solar Eclipse" by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, National Quilt Museum Collection.

Lodging Availability

This page was updated on March 1, 2024.

HOTEL/MOTEL

AVAILABILITY

AMERICAN INN, 5125 Cairo Rd. (I-24 Exit 3)

270.575.9605 | Contact: Dori

YES

AUBURN PLACE HOTEL & SUITES, 3994 Hinkleville Rd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.444.7667 

NO

BEST WESTERN, 2690 Husbands Rd. (I-24 Exit 11)

270.443.2323

NO 

CANDLEWOOD SUITES, 3940 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit 4)

270.442.3969 ext. 502 | Contact: Dina Thompson, dthompson.cwspk@gmail.com

NO

COMFORT INN, 5135 Cairo Rd. (I-24 Exit 3)

917.426.9002 ext. 218 | Contact: Nicole Williams, nicole.w@daryon.com

YES, Limited Availability

COMFORT SUITES, 3918 Coleman Crossing Rd. (1-24 Exit 4)

917.426.9002 ext. 218 | Contact: Nicole Williams, nicole.w@daryon.com

YES

COUNTRY INN & SUITES, 145 McBride Ln. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.442.2201 | Contact: Lisa, countryinnandsuites@gmail.com (ATTN: Lisa)

NO

COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT, 3835 Technology Dr. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.953.7501 | Contact: Nathan Vance, nathan.vance@asmgmt.com

YES, Limited Availability

DAYS INN, 3901 Hinkleville Rd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270. 442.7500 | Contact: Kim or Cheryl, krust@charterlodging.com

NO

DRURY INN, 3975 Hinkleville Rd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.443.3313 | Contact: Nicole Cox, nicole.cox@druryhotels.com

NO

DRURY SUITES, 2930 James Sanders Blvd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.441.0024 | Contact: Nicole Cox, nicole.cox@druryhotels.com

NO

FAIRFIELD INN & SUITES, 3950 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit 4)

270.442.1700 | David Wells,  dwells@prohosp.com

YES

HAMPTON INN & SUITES, 3901 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit 4)

270.442.0200 | Contact: Aaron Reside, aaron.reside@hilton.com

NO

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES, 3996 Hinkleville Rd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.442.8874 | Contact: Cary Allen, cary_allen@midamcorp.com

NO

HOLIDAY INN PADUCAH RIVERFRONT, 600 N. Fourth St. (Downtown)

270.366.7614 | Contact: Laura Gower, dos.pahrf@lin-gate.com

YES

HOMEWOOD SUITES, 3925 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit 4)

270.443.0009 | Contact: Brock Tucker, brock.tucker@hilton.com

YES

LA QUINTA INN & SUITES, 3960 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit4)

270.443.4800  | Contact: Douglas Cockcroft

YES

MUSTANG INN, 5006 Hinkleville Rd. (I-24 Exit 4)

270.558.3194

NO

QUALITY SUITES, 2880 James Sanders Blvd. (I-24 Exit 4)

 270.442.2080 | Contact: Vick Patel, gm.ky411@choicehotels.com

YES

RED ROOF INN, 5106 Cairo Rd. (I-24 Exit 3)

270.442.1616 | Contact: Paul Patel, redroofpaducah@gmail.com

YES, Limited Availability

RESIDENCE INN, 3900 Coleman Crossing (I-24 Exit 4)

270.444.3966 | Contact: Brandon Morrison, pad@musselmanhotels.com

YES, Limited Availability 

SUPER 8 BY WYNDHAM PADUCAH, 2701 HC Mathis Drive

270.443.5500 | Contact: Drew J. Gandhi, super82701@gmail.com

YES, Limited Availability

1895 WASHINGTON HOTEL, 1310 Broadway (Midtown)

270.978.1202 | Contact: Valerie, 1stKYRealty@gmail.com

YES

UNIQUE LODGING

AVAILABILITY

1857 HOTEL, 210 Kentucky Ave. (Downtown)

270.933.1857 | Contact: Paul Gourieux, the1857paducah@gmail.com

NO

PADUCAH HARBOR PLAZA, 117 N. 2nd St. (Downtown)

270.556.3094 | Contact: Beverly McKinley, phplaza@vci.net

NO

CAMPGROUND/RV PARK

AVAILABILITY

DUCK CREEK RV PARK, 2540 John Puryear Dr. (I-24 Exit 11)

270.415.0404 | Contact: Todd or Dana, info@duckcreekrvpark.com

*NO

FERN LAKE CAMPGROUND & RV PARK, 5535 Cairo Rd. (I-24 Exit 3)

270.444.7939 | Contact: Deanna Bazzell, info@fernlakecampground.net

NO

PADUCAH / I-24 / KENTUCKY LAKE KOA JOURNEY (19 miles from Paducah), 4793 US Hwy. 62, Calvert City, KY 42029

270.395.5841 | Contact: Nicole Wolfe, paducah@koa.com

YES

KENTUCKY STATE PARKS

AVAILABILITY

KENTUCKY DAM VILLAGE STATE RESORT PARK (21 miles from Paducah), 166 Upper Village Dr. Gilbertsville, KY

270.362.4271 | Contact: Tammy or Karen, karen.faughn@ky.gov

NO

KENLAKE STATE RESORT PARK (42 miles from Paducah), 542 Kenlake Rd., Hardin, KY 42048

270.474.2211 | Contact: Mike Duffy, michael.duffy@ky.gov

YES, Limited Availability

HICKORY HILL RESORT KENTUCKY LAKE, (32 miles from Paducah), 90 County Rd 1126 A, Benton, KY 42025

270.978.1202 | Contact: Valerie, 1stKYRealty@gmail.com

YES