The background is black as can be and the stars are beyond counting.
Light pollution is minimal.
When you travel as an astronomer you accept that weather sometimes obscures the view. The site was chosen to complement a visit to the Drumheller Valley with its particular paleontological slant. The latitude at is just over 51 degrees. If the high arctic is the land of the midnight sun, then this is the land of midnight twilight. In spite of this, at a recent observing session, within two days of solstice, with a nearly-full moon and a partly cloudy sky, we thrilled a group of camp counselors with a terrific view of Venus, Mars, the Ring Nebula, the Hercules globular cluster, the Whirlpool galaxy and numerous double stars.