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National GeographicAfter sunset, thousands of stars emerge across the sky above Big Bend National Park. Darkness is hard to measure definitively, but Texas’s largest national park sits within the world’s biggest certified dark sky area—the 15,000-square-mile (38,850 square-kilometer) Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve. This is one of the finest places in the country to see the Milky Way, offering nighttime visitors a star-spangled sky much as it looked 250 years ago. With the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence quickly approaching, we're celebrating the grandest, wildest, and strangest bits of American geography and culture across every state and territory. Discover more Wonders of America at the 🔗 in bio.
On the profile · Jul 1, 2026