Maple Grove, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Maple Grove in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 11.3% 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 Maple Grove

Otsego, MN, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Maple Grove. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Maple Grove compares nationally

Maple Grove, MN counts roughly 72,739 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Maple Grove places 360 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.