Canyonlands Nation Park has recently received the International Dark Sky Association's highest ranking as a "Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park." http://kuer.org/post/canyonlands-becomes-dark-sky-park http://darksky.org/canyonlands-national-park-named-international-dark-sky-pa... I'll be in Canyonlands on September 18th helping them celebrate and participating in a star party with park staff and their telescopes. We still could use a couple of other telescopes. The star party itself will be at Grand View Point (N38.312 W109.857) within Canyonlands NP. I've posted about this previously, but my Utah-Astronomy inbox archive somehow vanished and I don't recall who said they'd be willing to come down. Canyonlands is offering to reserve (a very rare thing) two campsites near the star party for use by participants who come with a telescope and share the views with the public. Canyonlands staff say they're anticipating ~200 people, hence the need for more telescopes. If you're interested, or if you've previously told me you're coming, please send me a message so I know if any folks here will be coming down and wanting one of the two reserved camp sites. Thanks, Seth Jarvis Clark Planetarium sjarvis@slco.org