Mount Pleasant, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Mount Pleasant reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 59.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mount Pleasant.

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 Mount Pleasant

27 miles from Mount Pleasant, straight-line, sits Midland, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mount Pleasant's own suburban band.

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

How Mount Pleasant compares nationally

About 21,090 people live in Mount Pleasant, MI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mount Pleasant places 1,901 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.