Bridgeton, MO: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Bridgeton in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 18.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bridgeton.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bridgeton

Maryland Heights, MO, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bridgeton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Bridgeton compares nationally

About 11,301 people live in Bridgeton, MO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Bridgeton places 589 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.