Harrison, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Harrison reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 3.4% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Harrison

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Windsor, WI, roughly 82 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Harrison compares nationally

Harrison, WI counts roughly 14,254 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Harrison places 108 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.