Few rooms remain vacant; Hotels, RV spaces mostly full ahead of eclipse
If you’re calling accommodations providers in La Grande trying to make a reservation for this weekend, you may be pleasantly surprised to find a few options available. Few is the operative word, however. Crowds of visitors traveling to the region are projected to be hundreds of thousands. Eastern Oregon University , which is renting out campus dorms during the eclipse weekend, has reported that only five to eight suites of the original 60 are still available. Each suite contains two or three rooms. “We do have a handful still open, but we’re still trying to catch up,” said EOU Director of Residence Life Jeremy Jones . “We don’t do this very often.” Jones said EOU uses the dorms for conferences and teams during the summer, but nothing like this. Jones is confident the EOU rooms will be full by Friday. He estimated that nearly 200 people will stay in the dorms for three nights. “We hope we’re adding value to the community and help get people here to utilize the restaurants,” Jones said....