And as folks leave the first coast-to-coast solar eclipse since 1918, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that nearly two-thirds of the nation's resident live withing a day's drive of the path of totality.
And with Oregon being the first to see the eclipse, it and neighboring state Washington are experiencing the worst bouts of the traffic jams.
'This is the biggest transportation event that has ever hit Oregon,' Dave Thompson, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation told AP.
Oregon expected over a million people to be in attendance for the eclipse.