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Color spotters may have less to cheer about Sunday afternoon, should strong winds (20 — 30 mph) blow across the High Sierra and Cascades, as now predicted. Locations shown in this article were photographed within the past week. Today (Fri., Oct. 26), tomorrow (Sat., Oct 27) and Sunday morning (Oct. 28) may be the last […]
Few color spotters explore Shasta County, as it has a fairly narrow window of color due to similar elevations. It’s also a long drive for many, though worth it, if only to visit McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. President Theodore Roosevelt called Burney Falls in the park, “The eighth wonder of the world.” It’s a […]
Trinity County’s Coffee Creek is beginning to perk with pink Pacific dogwood, yellow bigleaf maple and orange-red Indian rhubarb peaking concurrently. In other parts of California, dogwood and Indian rhubarb have peaked, but at Coffee Creek, it’s still possible to find forests blushing with their colors. Coffee Creek (3,068′) — Near Peak (50-75%) GO NOW!
“Far from the aspen groves in the Sierra, the smaller creatures … go about their business of preparing for winter.” color spotter Robert Kermen reports. While relaxing over a cup of brew in his backyard, Kermen observed two very different winged species feeding on the last blooms of a Rose of Sharon bush: a carpenter […]
Today’s New York Times California Today repeats our assertion that, this year, California is Golden.
California’s 2018 Autumn will be remembered as one of the most unbelievably beautiful and long-lasting, ever. In Mono County, the show has simply been beyond exclamation. That’s encouraged Mono County’s Alicia Vennos to declare that her destination, our previous pick as “Peak of the Week,” should get its title extended another week, “thanks to gorgeous fall […]
“Peak fall color is tumbling down the mountains and spreading out across the Owens Valley,” Bishop color spotter Gigi de Jong describes poetically. Bishop Canyon is now drained of its Peak color, which she says “seems to be flowing into the lower creeks and canyons.” California’s largest and finest display of peaking black cottonwood are […]
We didn’t expect much as we drove toward Susanville on CA-36, this past Sunday. Willows along the Susan River were dry and colorless, but then the hills surrounding Susanville began to light up with orange-yellow black oak sprinkled along a ridge of conifers. Then, “Surprise, surprise,” the drive through Susanville, then south on US 395, […]
Sophie Geaney was lovin’ Lundy this past weekend, finding it “peaking perfectly,” with lush aspen throughout the campground and up the first 1.5 miles of the trail, described as “really amazing.” The trail to Parker Lake is Past Peak, though there’s color once at the lake. June Lake, of course, is magnificent this week. Lundy […]
Ney Springs Creek, southwest of the town of Mt. Shasta, was the site of a busy resort in the 19th century. A series of springs there attracted patrons in search of rest and recuperation, writes HikeMtShasta.com. “Today, the resort is gone and nature is reclaiming what little of it remains,” the site explains. A short […]