KCRA-TV3 – Top Ten NorCal Fall Foliage
Napa Valley (11/5/16) Gene Miller
Our friends at KCRA-TV3 have posted Northern California’s top ten fall foliage spots. CLICK HERE to read their report.
Foster Travel on California Fall Color
Foster Travel
Travel writer/photographer Lee Foster and I will be heading Outside on the Eastside starting on Monday to photograph and record fall color.
Lee has published many books on California and holds the distinction as the first travel writer to fully embrace and be truly successful in online publishing. Recently, he posted this article on California Fall Color.
Our route will take US 50 east to Placerville, then south along Mormon Emigrant Trail to CA 88, then east again across Carson Pass through the Hope Valley, turning south through Markleeville and over Monitor Pass to US 395.
From there, we’ll travel south, checking Eastern Sierra canyons for color, arriving at North Lake in Bishop Creek Canyon for the sunset.
I’ve been asked where the locations identified on this site are located, since many are not identified on Google or Apple maps. That is why I’ve placed a custom map on this website. You’ll find it in the column to the right, just below the weather forecast.
California Fall Color Map
The California Fall Color Map identifies precisely where fall color has been seen and to what stage the color has progressed. However, the updating of the leafs is done manually as new reports arrive, and I am sometimes delayed from posting updates. So, the map is only as current as time permits to post updates.
Still, if you’re reading this site and go to the map, you can find locations about which we’ve reported on this site.
To use it, click on the brackets at upper right. The map will open in a new window. Then search for the location you want to visit or click on a leaf. Expand the view to make clicking on leaves easier. You may have to click “View in Google Maps,” for a closeup view of nearby roads.
Good hunting.
Via Preaches California Fall Color
Writing in Via, Christopher Hall declares, “To hear New England tell it, you’d think that glorious fall foliage only happens there. But we in the West respectfully disagree.”
Amen.
CLICK HERE to read his article.
NY Times Reviews CaliforniaFallColor.com
All The News That’s Fit To Print
South Lake Rd, near Parchers, Bishop Creek Canyon (9/23/17) Naresh Satyan
NY Times reporter Mike McPhate posted a piece today in California Today about our autumn, stating, “That means in California, with its extreme topography, weekend travelers can find their way to fall foliage for much longer.”
CLICK HERE to read Mike’s article.
Also, the NY Times’ California Today has a new feature by which you can post a photo. We recommend sending current photos and ones that show not just inspirational landscapes, but the relationship of people to them. CLICK HERE to be taken to that page.
NBC on CaliforniaFallColor
NBC believes seeing California Fall Color is “Worth The Trip.” The network’s LA, Bay Area, San Diego and Sacramento stations have been regular followers of CaliforniaFallColor.com and several just posted the above review on their websites.
Thanks NBC’s California affiliates for being such great supporters of CaliforniaFallColor!
TasteCaliforniaTravel On CaliforniaFallColor
Quaking Aspen, Hope Valley (9/15/17) Phillip Reedy
Dan Clark, editor of TasteCaliforniaTravel.com called this week to talk fall color. Dan’s blog combines “what’s great in wine, beer, fine dining, places to stay and places to visit” across California.
Over the years, we’ve traded news about exploring California, and Dan was preparing for autumn.
Today, he published an article about CaliforniaFallColor.com and what makes our autumn so special. To read it and more from TasteCaliforniaTravel, CLICK HERE.
Bishop: Look East to See the Sunset
Videographer Skandar Reid shows how to watch sunsets in the Eastern Sierra… turn toward the east.
That’s because sunset light bends through the atmosphere at high elevations to create a phenomenon called alpenglow that colors high peaks to the east.
That happens in Bishop where sunsets beyond the Sierra illuminate the eastern White Mountains with their alpenglow. So, at sunset in the Eastern Sierra, look east.
The reverse happens at sunrise… look west.
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NY Times: “California Has No Seasons” Debunked
All the News That’s Fit to Print
Fit to Print…
The New York Times correspondent Mike McPhate – a third-generation Californian who lives in Davis – repeated the oft-stated refrain, “California has no seasons,” in California Today, last Friday, then debunked it.
CLICK HERE to read Mike’s column.
We’re Back Up and Rolling!
Hot car + hot color at Bishop Creek Canyon on (10/2/16) = a hot photo by Daniel Stas
So sorry for the delay in posting. The readers of CaliforniaFallColor.com are so fanatical about seeing the best fall color that high traffic crashed our site for nearly 24 hours.
Whew! As soon as I can, I’ll be posting photos again. In the mean time, here’s a sugarplum of a shot taken this past week in Bishop Creek Canyon by Daniel Stas.
Keep those cards, letters, and fall color photos coming in to editor@californiafallcolor.com. We love hearing from you and sharing what you’ve seen.
What They’re Saying
Media across California are reinforcing what we’ve been preaching… that California’s fall color is spectacular and shouldn’t be missed.
Click on these links to see what the San Francisco Chronicle reported this past week.
SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle) – Doug Zimmerman – October 1
SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle) – Tom Stienstra, Sept. 27