[C19fan]

Think about people born say on East Coast might never see the Milky Way. The closest I came was in the Smoky Mountain area.

[WayneS]

I live in an eastern state and I get to see the Milky Way on a regular basis. It gets pretty dark in my part of Central Virginia.

[hinckley buzzard]

There is a designated DarkSky Park in southern Utah, far from the glare of human lights. These places are worth visiting on a clear night.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

With relatives and friends in Ketchum, we visit there regularly. The night sky on the Galena Summit is spectacular (halfway between Ketchum and Stanley).

Blaine County is the Democrat stronghold in Idaho, so the libs there are probably going to require everybody to put blackout shades on their house windows and drive at night without headlights.

[Gay State Conservative]

About 30 years ago we spent a night on Marathon Key,about half way between Miami and Key West.It was a cool,clear January night...not a cloud in the sky.

Looking up,this kid from the city couldn't *believe* how many stars there were in the sky.I had never even imagined it!

[Mears]

We saw it in upstate New York-—the Adirondacks.

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[glorgau]

Think about people born say on East Coast might never see the Milky Way.

The White Mountains can get pretty dark. I did some sleeping up high in the summer, and the skies were glorious.

[Conan the Librarian]

I am still trying to get to Oki-Tex in far western Oklahoma.

It’s not only dark there, it’s dry. Suppose to be one of the darkest places in the lower 48.

Seeing the Milky Way isn’t that hard if you know what you’re looking for. I see it all the time from where I live, about 2 miles out of town and about 1 mile from a Sam’s/Wal-mart complex. On the other hand, east of me is pretty much nothing until you get to Morocco.

Our Dark Sky site about 60 miles out of town, does have some light domes, but, on a dry night, you can see dark lanes in the Milky Way that you didn’t even know were there. No problems with seeing 12+ magnitude galaxies and nebula.

[snarkpup]

The night sky over Colorado National Monument is reasonably dark—especially compared to, say, Tokyo. Once a year our astronomy club puts on a program for a group of Japanese students who are studying to become travel agents and are touring the western U.S. on a field trip. Most of them have scarcely seen stars before.

[M1078]

The likely result of too many CA transplants. After all, they’re not too bright.

[minnesota_bound]

When it is really dark you can see the lines of the constellations...