Fall Color Reports

[DarkPenguin]

Just thought I would start a thread on resources for fall colors.  Here is the Minnesota DNR fall color report for Minnesota's state parks ...

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fall_colors/index.html

If anyone else wants to add any links or simply report in that would be great.

[Gary Brown]

Here's the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Fall Foliage Homepage.

Also a couple of their news releases, Spectacular Fall Foliage Expected Statewide and Many Factors at Play When Forecasting “Quality” of Fall Color.

[Christopher Sanderson]

For Eastern Canada you can look here - although now, at mid-September, it is really too early to predict accurately and I notice there is not yet any info on that link for Ontario and East.

From my memory of previous years in Central Ontario, my guess is that Fall colour will be slightly later than usual this year due to the cool wet Summer and the very healthy green growth we have had. To my eye, the first signs of yellowing are about 10 days later than usual and have yet to show significantly. If correct, this would put the height of colour in Algonquin Park back to the second week of October.

[Jeremy Payne]

Connecticut:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2222&...depNav_GID=1631

[Joe Behar]

I like this one for Ontario....

Good details and they have very frequent updates

http://www.parkreports.com/fall/

[Bob Peterson]

Oklahoma

TravelOK.com: Fall Foliage

Bob

[Bob Peterson]

Texas

TPWD: Fall Foliage in Texas State Parks

Bob

[framah]

Maine:
maine colors

Vermont:
Vermont colors

New Hampshire:


New Hampshire colors

[Pete Ferling]

pennsylvania:  http://www.fallin.state.pa.us/fallinpa/index.jsp

[Jeremy Payne]

Connecticut:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2222&...depNav_GID=1631

Just starting in Northern CT ...

[nstop]

I like this one for Ontario....

Good details and they have very frequent updates

http://www.parkreports.com/fall/

The Ontario parks site looks very comprehensive, but I'm not sure about the accuracy.  I just returned from three days in Killarney, and to my amateur eye, it looked like 20% or less colour change versus the 40-49% they're reporting today.  Birch and Red Maple are just starting to turn, but Sugar Maples are almost all green.  As reported, there is very little leaf fall.  Most of the colour at present is ferns and small trees in exposed locations.  Colour change looked to be 1 to 2 weeks behind normal.

Brian

[DarkPenguin]

I have high hopes to actually be able to photograph some fall colors this year.  As it is the winds we've been having have been ripping green leaves (and branches) off the trees.

[Peter McLennan]

Late here in SE British Columbia, too.  I'd say at least a week, maybe more.

[BlasR]

North of maine is peak now

[DarkPenguin]

Well, between the dry spring and early summer, the snow a couple weeks ago and the endless rain this month fall was largely a bust this year for MN.  That's my report.

[EBBS]

Thats the best part of Mn, we go from HOT summer to Cold winter in about 2 weeks.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Eastern Massachusetts is quite nice right now. Western Mass peaked a couple of weeks ago.

Eric

[autofocus]

Here some autumn tints from Pyrenees (North Spain):
Topwalks
The colors are at best in October. The autumn sceneries are wonderful in Asturias and Cantabria as well. Over there the season is usually longer than in Pyrenees, from early October to the end over November.

[tim wolcott]

For god sake you can't look at your TV to find great fall colors.  The government can't even get anything right.  You need friends and your own eyes.  I travel the fall every year for 3 weeks.  You have to know your mountains and areas first hand.  The fall colors change from one pond to the next and from mountain to mountain.  TW