Lake Forest Park, WA's night sky, measured from orbit

Lake Forest Park's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Lake Forest Park's sky is brighter than 10.9% 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.

How far Lake Forest Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

25 miles from Lake Forest Park, straight-line, sits Bremerton, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lake Forest Park's own rural band.

Bremerton, 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 Lake Forest Park compares nationally

About 13,276 people live in Lake Forest Park, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lake Forest Park places 349 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.