St. Louis Park, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts St. Louis Park in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 41.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than St. Louis Park.

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 St. Louis Park

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Minnetonka, MN, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Minnetonka, 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 St. Louis Park compares nationally

St. Louis Park, MN has a population of about 49,899, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. St. Louis Park places 1,329 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.