Fountain, CO Night Sky Brightness
Fountain, CO's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Fountain 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. Fountain's sky is brighter than 21.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Fountain
71 miles from Fountain, straight-line, sits Aurora, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fountain's own suburban edge band.
Aurora, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Fountain compares nationally
About 29,457 people live in Fountain, CO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fountain's position, 684 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.