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What do US Forest Service rangers do in autumn? They surround themselves with fall color. That’s what color spotter Ashlyn Hollgarth reports from the Mt Shasta ranger station where an exotic, eastern sugar maple is coloring up beside the station. Just Starting (0-10%) — Mt. Shasta
This past week, a dusting of snow atop Lassen Peak in Lassen Volcanic National Park closed the park road, but that was short lived, as many of these early dustups tend to be in California. Park Guide Shanda Ochs sends the above photo of firey red knotweed, photographed of the meadow on the trail northeast of […]
Driving Highway 99 — the agricultural spine of California’s Central Valley — is a long way to go, though its distance isn’t what we’re referring to in this post. What we mean is that it’ll be a while until the orchards and vineyards beside the highway are showing color. Yesterday, we drove north, passing through […]
Color spotters Debi Wages and Denae Gomez report that sycamore and maple at southern Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County Lakes San Antonio and Nacimiento are beginning to show color and the ground is littered with oak acorns. These Central Coast destinations are not expected to near peak until late October. In late October, oaks and […]
OK, so Idaho is far afield from California. Though, CaliforniaFallColor.com has, on occasion, reported about other beautiful places to see fall color. Hailey, Idaho is one of those places Carol Waller, a color spotter and buddy from Hailey, sends these shots taken in her neighborhood.
Plenty of color is showing at elevations above 8,500′ in the Eastern Sierra’s Bishop Creek Canyon, though a dusting of snow, light rain and wind early this week, set the show back a week, reports color spotter Jared Smith. The light storm knocked aspen leaves that had already turned from their branches, though “thankfully most […]
Mono County color spotter Alicia Vennos reports that color is developing quickly. She forecasts that near peak will happen next week at highest elevations and peak will descend for the following month. Here’s her report. Patchy (10 — 50%) — Rock Creek Road/Hilton Creek Road — Colors towards the top of Rock Creek Road are starting to […]
Mammoth Lakes color spotter Josh Wray drove his 4 x 4 into the High Sierra to score a report from Laurel Canyon, and what a find! CaliforniaFallColor reported about Laurel Canyon a few years ago, but we were early and missed the show. So, we’ll give Josh color spotter creds as the first to post […]
Autumn is festival season with many events occurring just as leaves are turning color. Wildlife migrations and mating seasons are often celebrated. A major migration of humpback, blue and killer whales and dolphins continues to December in Monterey Bay, where large gatherings of humpback whales put on spectacular shows corralling schools of anchovies, then rising together […]
Overall Conditions Above 8500ft Elevation Patchy (10% — 50%) Bishop Creek color spotter Jared Smith of the Parcher’s Resort reports there is “a LOT of color showing on the canyon walls, especially from Mt. Glen Campground on up to the end of the road (which is currently below South Lake due to some construction there). […]