Northern Lights

Autumn’s light is setting in Minnesota where overnight temperatures have dropped to the 20s and all but aspen are at full Peak, color spotter Alena Nicholas reports.

Itasca State Park, Minnesota’s oldest  – established in 1981 – has some of the largest old growth trees in the midwest. They include towering red and white pine, white spruce, and northern white cedar.

Though its richly colored forest is full of Fremont cottonwood, black and green ash, red and burr oak and quaking and big tooth aspen, providing a palate of deep orange, gold, red, yellow and green.