We discovered after chatting to Roxann that she's clearly on to something. Goshen County's website lists residents and businesses who are offering campers spots on their property and the Bucking Horse Steakhouse on Torrington's Main Street is advertising camping spots without hook ups on its forecourt for $300 a night. To put that in perspective, our campsite in Torrington's Pioneer Park, with water and electricity, cost $10 a night.
It turns out that county officials don't know whether 10,000 or 60,000 visitors will turn up for the eclipse, which is a pretty significant problem. We discovered this when we attended a public meeting in Torrington a couple of days later – by this point, we'd been Torrington residents for four nights, so we were feeling right at home. After receiving our free eclipse-viewing glasses at the door, we learned that the biggest concern is how many day trippers will join the well-prepared eclipse watchers from across the US and overseas, who booked accommodation in Torrington months ago.
"We're one of the closest towns where Denver residents can view the total eclipse, and if it turns out cloudy in Casper [Wyoming's second-largest city] another 50,000 people could come here," said Roger Spears, science advisor to Goshen County's Eclipse Committee.
As a result, Goshen County's Eclipse Committee has been meticulously preparing for this event for over a year. It has plans to deal with everything from food and gas shortages and phone and internet service failures to ground fires and rattlesnake injuries. "Rattlesnakes are numerous this season, we're close to breeding season, they're shedding skin and they're upset," Shelly Kirchhefer, Goshen County's emergency management coordinator, said at the meeting.
Stopping and parking on the verge of county roads and highways will be prohibited during the eclipse, partly because of the fire risk and partly because visitors might step out of their car and on to a snake. Kirchhefer said she's warning all visitors to look at the patch of ground they are standing on very carefully before they look up at the sun. "Wherever you are standing to watch the eclipse, you need to be vigilant."
She's instructing visitors to bring food, water and a full tank of gas with them and went on to urge locals to stock up on food, water and gas early to give Torrington's two supermarkets, stores and gas stations the chance to restock before the eclipse. She pointed out that while emergency services staff would be spread all over, Goshen County can't call on law enforcement personnel from nearby counties, because they are either in the line of totality themselves or dealing with the traffic coming into Wyoming from elsewhere.
"Can't we call in the National Guard?" asked one concerned woman. "They only respond in times of a disaster or emergency," said Kirchhefer. "Folks, this is an event."
It sure is. We were very sad to leave Torrington before the big day, but the first eclipse photos we'll search for on Monday won't be from Kansas City or Casper or any of the national parks, but from here.

​I am not affiliated with Amazon or any retailer or streaming service, but having experimented with a variety of TV, music, film and delivery solutions, I can comfortably recommend Amazon Prime as great all-around value for RV travel. Our number one complaint while out and around in this great country has been the unavailability of decent internet service.  
One of the reasons for this is that a lot of parks, remote towns and wilderness areas are in the mountains. Another is that campground wifi, when available, even in luxury campgrounds, is about the quality that hotel wifi used to be 15 years ago, so at the rare place with a decent connection, everyone else is already streaming and torrenting it into uselessness.  
We have a T-mobile phone with tethering, an ATT phone with no tethering and a Verizon Mifi hot spot.  The hot spot is by far the most reliable, but data is limited (we have a 16GB per month plan) and the rollover is not really what you think (data only carries over for one month and then disappears).
Even with these solutions, we do find ourselves occasionally without any cell or internet service at all, and fairly often with service that is OK for email (for example, 3G or campground wifi) but not sufficient for publishing photos or video or streaming TV or movies.
Amazon Prime video is helpful in this regard because it lets you download videos to your phone to watch later when you have no connection.  Netflix also offers this service, but the Netflix app (for the iPhone at least) does not allow us to mirror the video to our TV.  Downloaded Amazon Prime video can be shared (in our case to Apple TV) and watched anytime, with or without a connection.  
The other main feature of Amazon Prime is, of course, free two-day shipping (now one day in some zip codes, two hours for some items in others). We travel through wilderness, tourist zones and very rural towns, with few shopping options. We are be unable to find some items (iPhone replacement parts, RV parts, etc) when we need them.
Other items, such as RV accessories, are available in campground stores, but at a markup of 200% or more over Amazon prices. Two-day free shipping means that as long as we know we are going to be in a campground for a few nights, we can have almost anything imaginable shipped to the campground office and pick them up. It also means that Sonny can have a new cardboard box.
So, if you are planning a long rural trip and don’t already have Amazon Prime, consider it.  We don’t watch much TV at all, so Amazon Prime has more than we could ever watch. Netflix would be the second best no-wifi option, if you don’t mind downloading at a cafe and watching from your phone or tablet later. Hulu and HBO Now just aren’t for the road.  So please do not tell me anything about Game of Thrones.