Ramsey, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Ramsey reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 4.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ramsey.

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 Ramsey

8 miles from Ramsey, straight-line, sits Otsego, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Ramsey's own rural band.

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 Ramsey compares nationally

About 28,999 people live in Ramsey, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ramsey places 154 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.