Inside This Remote Arizona Dark Sky Park Where the Milky Way Hangs Directly Above Your Campsite

Little Dipper stars are famously faint, so seeing every single one of them is a quiet test of how dark a sky really is. On the north side of a mountain range in southern Arizona, a former cattle ranch passes that test with ease. By day it is a breezy high-country park with oak, granite boulders, and an old ranch house full of stories. By night it becomes one of the best free-feeling shows in the state, and it sits within an easy drive of Tucson and Phoenix. A Ranch-Turned-Refuge in the Foothills