Stillwater, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Stillwater 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 9.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Stillwater.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Stillwater

Hugo, MN, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Stillwater. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Hugo, 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 Stillwater compares nationally

Stillwater, MN has a population of about 19,386, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Stillwater places 293 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.