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.