Oakdale, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Oakdale reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Oakdale's sky is brighter than 30.9% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oakdale

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lake Elmo, MN, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Lake Elmo, 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 Oakdale compares nationally

Oakdale, MN has a population of about 30,441, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Oakdale places 987 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.