Mount Vernon, WA: how dark is the sky here?

Mount Vernon's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 31.7% 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 Mount Vernon

Anacortes, WA, about 15 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mount Vernon. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Anacortes, 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 Mount Vernon compares nationally

Mount Vernon, WA counts roughly 35,344 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Mount Vernon places 1,012 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.