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Travel writer/photographer Lee Foster and I will be heading Outside on the Eastside starting on Monday to photograph and record fall color.
Lee has published many books on California and holds the distinction as the first travel writer to fully embrace and be truly successful in online publishing. Recently, he posted this article on California Fall Color.
Our route will take US 50 east to Placerville, then south along Mormon Emigrant Trail to CA 88, then east again across Carson Pass through the Hope Valley, turning south through Markleeville and over Monitor Pass to US 395.
From there, we’ll travel south, checking Eastern Sierra canyons for color, arriving at North Lake in Bishop Creek Canyon for the sunset.
I’ve been asked where the locations identified on this site are located, since many are not identified on Google or Apple maps. That is why I’ve placed a custom map on this website. You’ll find it in the column to the right, just below the weather forecast.
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The California Fall Color Map identifies precisely where fall color has been seen and to what stage the color has progressed. However, the updating of the leafs is done manually as new reports arrive, and I am sometimes delayed from posting updates. So, the map is only as current as time permits to post updates.
Still, if you’re reading this site and go to the map, you can find locations about which we’ve reported on this site.
To use it, click on the brackets at upper right. The map will open in a new window. Then search for the location you want to visit or click on a leaf. Expand the view to make clicking on leaves easier. You may have to click “View in Google Maps,” for a closeup view of nearby roads.
Good hunting.
Thinking about doing a solo road trip to the eastern sierras/mammoth area and then crossing over to Yosemite.. Trip would probably be the 12-18th give or take a few days. Do you think the colors will be more intense by then? Thank you for any advice!
Samantha, I suspect they may be turned at the highest elevations by then. We just posted that North Tahoe is high patchy, I give them two weeks at most and that’s at 6,200′. The high Eastern Sierra will develop rapidly.