Ashland, OR: how dark is the sky here?

Ashland's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 21.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Ashland

Arcata, CA, about 116 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Ashland. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Arcata, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Ashland compares nationally

Ashland, OR counts roughly 20,935 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ashland places 682 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.