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 Nov 2963%
- -1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Nov 2937%
Height off 3DEP inside the park’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the park stands in it.
That’s 1 day later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
The place
The only national park created to protect a biological system rather than a pretty view. 1.5 million acres of subtropical wilderness, and the only place on Earth where alligators and crocodiles share the same water. It is flat, hot, full of mosquitoes, and absolutely irreplaceable.
Established 1947. About 942K/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.
Saturday 28 November to Sunday 29 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- 0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 29
- -1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 29
- What turns
- willow, bald cypress, red-osier dogwood, blackgum
- Entrance
- $35
What turns, and when
- willow43%
- bald cypress34%
- red-osier dogwood14%
- blackgum9%
Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sweetgum, Red Maple, Hickory.
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.
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