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Big Bend National Park, a two hour drive from the McDonald observatory has extremely dark skies, as does the area immediately around the observatory. On the drive to the observatory from Fort David you’ll drive past a community of folks who live near the observatory specifically for the astronomy opportunity the dark skies there afford.

The entire Big Bend region is beautiful, remote, and very dark at night.

Central Idaho is also a dark, beautiful place for stargazing.