Dark sky places in Delaware

Delaware has one stargazing place on this site: Cape Henlopen State Park, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic. It is not a certified International Dark Sky Place, and no Bortle class is recorded for it here, so set expectations accordingly: this is a summer-night spot, not a dark-sky destination in itself. Its case is the open horizon. From the beach the Milky Way rises over the Atlantic on clear, moonless nights, with nothing but water between you and the east.The window is June to August, around the new moon, with the Perseid meteors peaking in mid-August. A warm summer night after the beach has emptied is the time to go, and the same new-moon rule applies as everywhere else on this site: the darker the moon, the more of the Milky Way you will see.