With the support of Starry Skies Lake Superior IDA chapter and the Heart of the Continent Partnership, Quetico becomes the 3rd public land in the region to achieve the Dark Sky Park designation following Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota. This unique international partnership builds on a long history of cooperation to create an internationally significant area of pristine protected night skies in Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Minnesota.
Achieving this designation involved a rigorous two-year process which required:
– Light management planning to convert existing external lighting to dark sky compliant light fixtures.
– Annual sky quality measurements to ensure dark sky criteria were met.