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If you’re looking for a nice, dark place to see the stars at night in all of their glory, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better place than Big Bend National Park. Being far from not only cities, but even a ways from all but the smallest towns, there’s just not that much light pollution to ruin the view. So, the park has about the darkest skies you can find in the United States.
But one downside to being far from the lights of the city is that you’re also far from big electrical connections. This meant for a long time that the only way to get a charge would be to plug into a 50-amp circuit at an RV park, either in the nearby small town of Terlingua or in one of the park’s campgrounds (which apparently no longer even has hookups). Eventually, some of the businesses in the area got…
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