Dark Sky Parks
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Patten, MaineBortle 1 Best in Summer
Pristine sky, where the Milky Way casts shadows on the ground.
The first International Dark Sky Sanctuary on the entire eastern seaboard of the United States, Katahdin Woods and Waters holds skies that researchers have compared favorably to conditions near Antarctica on the Bortle scale. The monument sits in the remote forests of northern Maine adjacent to Baxter State Park, forming one of the largest contiguous dark sky corridors in the eastern US. The Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters runs an annual Stars Over Katahdin program with guided stargazing.
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