Mcdonald Park is considered Canada's second, and British Columbia's only designated Dark Sky Park which is officially free of light pollution for clear-sighted gazing into the night sky.

The result is an excellent east-south and western exposure is a wonder in Mcdonald Park because of natural geographic advantage as the mountain slopes act like a huge amphitheatre to block off the light of Abbotsford to the west, Chilliwack to the east and Mission to the North.