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(North Lake, Bishop Creek Canyon — 10/3/17) — Here’s a report from Bishop Creek Canyon, recorded today. North Lake and Sabrina Lake are Near Peak, though with large areas of Patchy color. South Lake has Peak color and is glorious! Please note: This autumn is very different in Bishop Creek Canyon from previous ones in […]
Plumas County color spotter Jeff Luke Titcomb took a road trip in search of fall color. He rode along Hideaway Road and Round Valley Road to the Round Valley reservoir, then up from there to the top, and back down to Canyon Dam near Lake Almanor. He found the Canyon Dam side not as far […]
Color spotter Jim Gardner visited the north fork of Big Pine Creek to find the aspen peaking near Lon Chaney’s cabin, and that there’s still some snow on the ground at over 10,000’. Big Pine Creek (10,000’) — Peak GO NOW!
Roosevelt Elk are in rut at Redwood National & State Parks (Orick) where deciduous leaves began changing fast last week, North Coast color spotter Max Forster reports. The annual elk rut is one of California’s colorful displays in autumn, as massive bull elks challenge one another for the right to mate with herds of female […]
Pasadenan Naresh Satyan describes the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California as not truly a fall color hotspot, though like all of California’s mountain ranges, there are exceptional spots of bright color. He reports that the few bigleaf maple are at or near peak color are found between 4000’ and 6000′. The Sheep Mountain Wilderness […]
Patchy color is appearing early across the Shasta Cascade, providing opportunities to harvest an autumn drive with a car show, road race, trout derby and all sorts of festivals (music, food, and fun). Here are some of the events that will be happening up north on this coming and the following weekend. Oct. 6 — […]
Non-native, landscaped maples are lighting up Grass Valley in hues of orange and salmon, Robert Kermen reports. Fall color creds to whoever can ID this type of maple. Update: And Evelyn gets the creds, identifying the tree as Acer Rubrum (red maple), common to eastern and central North America.
The North Lake Road, up Bishop Creek Canyon, is often a destination for photographers, as it was on Sunday for Star Masterton who found the aspen along North Lake Road, North Lake and high areas of Bishop Creek Canyon nearing peak, as seen in her photographs. Update: I visited North Lake on Monday, though […]
Golden Gate Park is one of America’s great central parks, well-used by The City’s residents and a great place to see bright color in autumn. Bay Area color spotter Darrell Sano is better known for his shots of the east bay and Berkeley Hills, but he spent Saturday exploring Golden Gate Park. His 9.1-mile walk […]
Fall color doesn’t need to be hanging from a branch. It sometimes can be crawling on the ground, as Shanda Ochs, park guide at Lassen Volcanic National Park shows in her shot of a fuzzy fall time caterpillar. Shanda shows what we often recommend, look down, not just up when searching for fall color. At […]