white oak and northern red oak
red maple and shagbark hickory, peak Oct 19
Peak color should arrive around 19 Oct for the red maple and shagbark hickory, and around 28 Oct for the white oak and northern red oak.
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.
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.
Saturday 24 October to Sunday 25 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- Where to drive
- Skyline Drive, about 78 miles · Route 39 (Goshen Pass), about 149 miles
- What turns
- white oak, northern red oak, red maple, shagbark hickory
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