Cottage Grove, OR's night sky, measured from orbit

Cottage Grove'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. Only 40.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cottage Grove.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Cottage Grove

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Independence, OR, roughly 74 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Cottage Grove compares nationally

Cottage Grove, OR has a population of about 10,690, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Cottage Grove places 1,280 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.