Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
- 0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2693%
- -1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Oct 277%
Height off 3DEP inside the area’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the area stands in it.
If you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Sunday 25 October to Monday 26 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- Where to drive
- Skyline Drive, about 81 miles
- What turns
- red maple, blackgum, sweetgum, water oak, white oak
This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. We score it here against 7 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 13 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made