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Santa Catalina Island, made famous by The Four Preps in their song “26 miles,” is our newest fall color spot. Color spotters Nick and Alena Barnhart spent this week on the “Island of romance,” reporting they saw areas of color all over the island. Nick says the color is at the end of peak with most of […]
Autumn 2014 didn’t live up to its predictions. Back in August, when leaves first began to turn, some forecast that California’s third year of drought would diminish the show of fall color. Instead, as Jared Smith’s photograph of Lake Sabrina shows, it was spectacular. Here’s how autumn shaped up: CaliforniaFallColor.com’s first “fall color report” was published […]
Thanksgiving Week marks two events in the national forests of northeast California, the end of fall color and the start of Christmas tree cutting. Traveling to the north woods to cut a tree is a family adventure that for many is an annual tradition. Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Lassen National Forest are now issuing Christmas […]
Color spotter Eric Trumbauer posted this photo of Cottonwood Springs Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park on our FB page with the Monty Pythonesque comment, “something a bit different…” Eric wins accolades for posting this first-ever shot of fall color at Joshua Tree NP in California’s Mojave Desert. Joshua Tree National Park (Peak 75-100%) — […]
Susan Taylor writes on our FB page that she had hoped for a dusting of snow on Yosemite Valley when she visited, yesterday. We’re glad she found a dusting of fall leaves, instead.
Color spotter Cory Poole reports that there’s still a lot of color to be seen around the edge of Lake Shasta, though because the lake level has dropped so significantly, it isn’t reflected in the lake. However, travel north to see Mount Shasta and fall trees reflected in the still waters of Lake Siskiyou.
Alexander Valley (Peak 75-100%) — Color spotters Larry and Debbie Trettin posted on our Facebook page today that each November, they make a point of driving Geysers Rd, north of Healdsburg, to see the color before it disappears. As the skies were clearing today, they got this shot of the Alexander Valley freshly washed by […]
Looking back at the brilliant photographs of this past autumn, one is struck by the beauty. It has been a glorious autumn and given California’s record drought, who would have thought it could be? Color spotter Frank McDonough of the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Gardens wonders whether the show is building to be […]
Color spotters from across the Shasta Cascade were reporting enduring spots of fall color until today. Then, a series of rain storms began passing through northern California. They have dampened and spotted the remaining color, pushing most areas of northeast California past peak. Butte County (Peak to Past Peak) — When last reported, walnut groves […]
Until this past weekend, fall color in the San Bernardino Mountains has survived a lack of Santa Anas, though winds are predicted to begin rising this week. Nicholas and Alena Barnhart toured the SB Mountains’ major fall color viewing locations: Big Bear Lake, Lake Arrowhead, Grass Valley Lake, Lake Gregory and Silverwood Lake to bring […]