Friday 19th April 2024

It seems like every holiday we talk about the upcoming record number of folks anticipated to travel during the holiday. Not so for Memorial Day 2020.

Rose White, at Triple-A-Iowa, says the motor club isn’t releasing a holiday weekend travel forecast for the first time in 20 years.

Even the lower gas prices, as compared to a year ago may not be enough to entice more travel. Gasoline is averaging a dollar-75 a gallon in Iowa, that’s 13-cents below the national average. A year ago, gas prices in Iowa were averaging two-67 a gallon. The last time the average national gas price leading into the Memorial Day holiday was under two dollars a gallon was 17 years ago — in 2003.