Dark Sky Caravan 2025

The Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium is gearing up to hit the road again for the 8th annual Dark Sky Caravan, August 11th – 16th!

Minnesota is home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), the second-largest International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world. To celebrate our dark skies, Planetarium staff will be traveling along the North Shore, stopping at different locations each night for a star party. You can enjoy fun activities and presentations, or planetarium shows. Once it gets dark, you can gaze through telescopes and get a live sky tour of the stars and constellations visible. We will also be on the lookout for meteors from the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks on August 12th-13th. If it’s cloudy, don’t worry! We will still have fun activities and digital sky tours so you can learn what to look for when it clears up.

August 16th:  4 pm – 6 pm: Seagull Lake Community Center, Gunflint Trail

• Shows in the portable planetarium
• Activities