Lincoln Park, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Lincoln Park's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 50.7% 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 Lincoln Park

6 miles from Lincoln Park, straight-line, sits Kinnelon, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lincoln Park's own suburban band.

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

How Lincoln Park compares nationally

Lincoln Park, NJ has a population of about 11,030, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Lincoln Park places 1,618 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.