A decade in the making: Caprock Canyons achieves DarkSky International designation

  • VIEW AN ALBUM of spectacular dark-sky photographs capturing the MilkyWay, bright stars, and last week’s Northern Lights on the park’s Facebook page, with images by Maegan Lanham, Sherry Cory, Rafe Griga and Richard Galle. | FACEBOOK
    VIEW AN ALBUM of spectacular dark-sky photographs capturing the MilkyWay, bright stars, and last week’s Northern Lights on the park’s Facebook page, with images by Maegan Lanham, Sherry Cory, Rafe Griga and Richard Galle. | FACEBOOK

    After nearly a decade of time-consuming and in-depth processes, the Caprock Canyons State Park announced on Nov. 25 that they have earned their prestigious International Dark Sky Park (IDSP) certification, designating them a Bortle 2 International State Park. The Bortle scale measures light pollution on a scale of one to nine, with one being the darkest, found in pure space and nine being inner-ci…