St. Louis Park, MN Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 1,329 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.