Lacey, WA: how dark is the sky here?

Lacey reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. 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 35.3% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Lacey

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Yelm, WA, roughly 10 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Lacey compares nationally

Lacey, WA has a population of about 58,644, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Lacey places 1,126 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.