National Park·Florida·172,435 acres
Biscayne National Park
Forecast issued Nov 10, 7:57am ET
We don’t forecast fall color here. Measured turning canopy covers 0.02% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Our model reads latitude and elevation and will happily produce a date for anywhere; publishing one here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast, so we don’t.
That’s 1 day later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
The place
173,000 acres of national park and 95 percent of it is underwater. Sitting just south of Miami, Biscayne protects the northernmost living coral reefs in the continental United States, a chain of undeveloped barrier islands, and a bay so clear you can read the bottom from a boat. Most people drive right past it on the way to the Keys without knowing it exists.
Established 1980. About 571,000/year visitors.
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.
Friday, November 27 to Saturday, November 28
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- What turns
- willow, bald cypress, blackgum, red maple, sweetgum
- Entrance
- No entrance fee
What turns, and when
- willow25%
- bald cypress11%
- blackgum11%
- red maple11%
- sweetgum11%
- water oak11%
Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Hickory, Dogwood.
Bald cypresses turn russet and copper along the rivers, sweetgums provide scattered red and purple, and the maples in the Panhandle produce pockets of real color.
Across Florida as a whole: Late November through December in the Panhandle, spotty elsewhere.
Questions people ask about Biscayne National Park
- When is peak fall foliage at Biscayne National Park?
We don’t forecast fall color at Biscayne National Park. Measured turning canopy covers 0.02% of this unit, below the 0.5% we forecast on. Publishing a modeled date here would be a category error rather than an uncertain forecast.
- Is there an entrance fee at Biscayne National Park?
Entrance fee Free.
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
Nearby, and when they turn
Everglades National Park Expansion is on the map above, with its own date.
- Peak Nov 29 best Nov 28 to Dec 1
- Peak Nov 30 best Nov 29 to Dec 2