Im in Area 8 and I’m lucky enough to board at a farm with a XC course, SJ arena, and dressage ring so we can school all 3 phases at home. We host mini-trials as well so I can stay home and compete which is nice. Theres a farm about 10 min down the road that hosts recognized events up to Novice (?) and then I believe that the other closest HTs are in Michigan and Kentucky unless I missed some when looking at the calendar. I’m still new to eventing though so the farthest that I’ve gone is to the one 10 min from home.
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I’m another Area II person. Most events are 60ish minutes or less, though we have traveled to Aiken to compete in the past, but made a whole trip out of it. Regularly go to Waredaca, Loch Moy, Full Moon Farm, and others.
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Also in Area II. I used to have a coworker who kept her horse roughly equidistant between Seneca and Loch Moy (~15 min to either venue), which meant Morven was an easy trip across the ferry (~30 min). She once told me she hadn’t been to Waredaca in years because it was so far away (~45 min). 
I have since moved to a slightly less convenient part of Area II, but one could still plan an entire season up through Intermediate without needing to drive more than 2 hours.
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My sentiments exactly. Any horse can do a dressage test and a stadium or even xc in one day. Having to use up an extra vacation day to travel in order to ride Friday is really annoying. Other places can do two phases in one day, why is the PNW the hold out? There have been threads on here about going from show jump to xc in one day and how to dress for both. Just makes the most sense.
The nice thing about this heritage course (since I was interested, I went to look it up) the course description on the US eventing omnibus reads " N, T, P will have maximum size fences on course so do not consider this a “move up course”, however, the courses should be considered standard for their level"
Heritage Park has always been the ‘hard’ course here in KC area. Longview is the ‘easier’ course
I’d love to hear more too about the stipulations to move an event from 3 days to 1-2 days. My hunch is the amount of horses and coordinating schedules. The event I went to in CA (Sept 2020) was easily 400 horses/18 horses in my division. And on the other hand, two of my GA events (Apr/June 2021) had 7/8 horses in my division, one show had a max of 80 horses altogether.
