Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival Guide

Bryce Canyon sits high, dry, and far from any city glow, which gives it some of the darkest, most star-choked skies in the country — on a clear night you can see 7,500 stars with the naked eye, where a suburban backyard shows you maybe forty. Each June, the park’s Astronomy Festival turns that into an event: the Bryce Canyon Astronomy Club and park rangers wheel out dozens of telescopes, run night programs, and point serious glass at Saturn’s rings and distant galaxies while the hoodoos loom black against the Milky Way. Bryce is a certified International Dark Sky park, and this is the week it shows off.