Sapulpa, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

Sapulpa 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. That's brighter than 18.8% of the 3,206 US 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 Sapulpa

Shawnee, OK, about 64 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Sapulpa. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Sapulpa compares nationally

Sapulpa, OK has a population of about 23,297, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Sapulpa places 600 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.