Georgia’s Stephen C. Foster State Park is in the middle of the Okefenokee Swamp. It’s very remote, and that means at night it is very dark. So dark, it’s now being recognized as one of the best places in the country to see the night sky.
The stars are so bright, they reflect off the surface of the water, like the moon would if it was up.
“It’s really pretty mesmerizing when the water is so still, it’s like glass here,” said Josh Snead, an interpretive ranger at the park. “You get the slight silhouettes of the cypress and you get the planets and the stars reflecting down here in the water.”
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