Wanaque, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Wanaque 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 13.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Wanaque

4 miles from Wanaque, straight-line, sits Ringwood, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Wanaque's own suburban edge band.

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

How Wanaque compares nationally

About 11,346 people live in Wanaque, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Wanaque places 433 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.